Stud. Center Expansion P-Anned Officials Propose $29 Million Project by Lori Pollski Meeting Thursday in the Ew- He Said
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Our second Today's weather: century NO Ill PROfiT ORG of excellence U S POSTAGE Spring is here! PAID Mostly sunny, ::c N~"""d'k D el P~rm,, No 26 high in mid 60s. Vol. 113 No. 17-= Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Tuesday, March 24, 1987 Stud. Center expansion p-anned Officials propose $29 million project by Lori Pollski meeting Thursday in the Ew- he said. "Student -fees, state ing Room of the Student fees and donations are other Copy Editor Center. ways that I've seen it done A proposal for a $29 million The expansion, which is before." expansion of the Perkins Stu needed to accommodate the Brooks explained that the dent Center will be presented growing needs of students, main reason for the Student to tPle university's board of Brooks said, will take about Center expansion would be to trustees in April for discussion two to three years to complete meet growing student needs and consideration, according after sources of funding are for office space, meeting to Dean of Students Timothy determined. rooms and entertainment Brooks. Brooks said, however, that facilities. Brooks discussed plans for · he is unsure from where the According to Brooks, the the proposed 100,000 square money will come. Student Center is too small to THE REVIEW/ J. Evan Reiff foot addition at a closed "I really don't know where properly serve the university An architect's rendering of the new Student Center, by Hillier undergraduate cabinet we are going to get the funds," continued to page 4 Group, architectural consultants. Shuttle travel key, motiv_ator, teacher says by Ritamarie Pitts Staff Reporter Man must rise above the earth To the top of the atmosphere and beyond For only thus will he fully understand The world in which he lives. - Socrates, 500 B. C. "For space exploration, that's exactly what we are do ing," said Barbara Morgan, president of the NASA 'I"HE REVIEW/" Dan Teacher in Space Program. "We are rising above the Barbara Morgan earth's atmosphere, and by Space Program: Touching the doing that we are learning Future," in Clayton Hall. about our past, our present, Morgan was runner-up to our future, ourselves and our Christa McAulliffe for a spot . THE REVIEW/lloyd Fox place in the universe." on the Challenger space shut Just out of reach - A university rugby club player battles for the bladder with a Temple Morgan spoke Friday night tle in January, 1986. University player. The Hens won the match at Lum's Pond Saturday. on the "NASA Teacher in continued to page 17 - Del~ groups get United Way funds by Valerie Caruso YMCA, said most of the money his agency wili what the parents pay and what we need to cover Staff Reporter receive this year will go to the YMCA's Walnut Street overhead, building operations, supplies, insurance Branch in inner-city Wilmington. and rent. The United Way of Delaware allocated $10.6 He explained that the funding is especially impor- "The money makes a big difference and it really million to 55 non-profit community organizations in tant to the inner city because it enables the organiza- goes across the board," Benatti said. Kent and New Castle counties on March 17. lion to provide alternate activities for teens who are The United Way also allocated $174,162 to various According to Gary Pollio, acting vice president of members of "street gangs." organizations for capital expenses, Pollio said. · agency operations and planning, $10.4 million of that The YMCA will use the money to sponsor programs "Agency capital needs might include anything amount will help support organizations like the for reading literacy and counseling, Lind said, in- from vehicle purchases to roof repairs or furnace American Cancer Society, the Boys Club of Wilm- eluding "drop-in centers" where people can go for replacements," he said. ington, and the YMCA of Delaware. advice and support. The United Way's Community Needs and Initiative Pollio explained that the United Way gathers its The United Way also provided funds for the Program received $100,000 in funds for 1987, double funds from corporate gifts and donations from Newark Day Nursery, Pollio said. the amount allocated in the past two years, Pollio businesses collected by volunteers. Jeff Benatti, executive director of the nursery, said. Joseph Lind, director of special services for the said, "[The money] makes up the difference between continued to page 2 Page 2 • The Review • March 24, .1987--------------------------------------------' 'Buddies' offer support to AIDS victims by Molly Gilmore to have anything in common, long since anybody's touched ding, "It depends on the needs Schwartz explained. The pro Copy Editor he's not going to want to see me.'" of the person with AIDS or gram is now helping about 25 me, he's going to throw me· Schwartz's group has 65 ARC." victims. Joan Schwartz is more than buddies for 25 cases of AIDS Fifteen to 20 of the buddies just a friend to AIDS victims out.' That wasn't the case at In addition to providing all. and ARC (Aids-Related Condi moral sup~rt, buddies may work in the Newark area. One -she's a buddy. tion). The two-year-old group, of those, Sally Mann, has been As coordinator for whicl'r has helped 48 victims a buddy for aboufa .year. "It's Delaware's "buddy system" '' .. here I am, a since its inception, is spon a real tough job," she said. for AIDS patients, Schwartz "It's been so long straight woman go sored by the AIDS Committee The most rewarding aspect leads a group of volunteers for the Delaware Gay and Les since anybody's of working with AIDS patients, who help victims cope with the ing in to see a gay bian Advocates. she said, is "knowing that losses that accompany the "What a buddy does mostly touched me. '' you're helping somebody that fatal disease. man." is they're a friend, they're a needs it = feeling like you . "When I first walked in my buddy," Schwartz said. make a difference in this per buddy's room, I thought: 'This "One day, while he was tell help victims with housework, son's life." is real chutzpah - here I am, ing me something, he became "Anything you can conceive of correspondence, and grocery a straight woman, going in to very sad and started to cry. doing for a friend, well, that's shopping, and take them to see a gay man. I'm a health My natural reaction was to put what a buddy does." doctor's appointments, care professional, he's a hair my arm around him. He just The actual tasks performed Schwartz continued. "There are certain dresser .... We're not going held on and said, 'It's been so by a buddy vary, she said, ad- Victims are often abandon casesthaticannot ed by their families and friends, but a more serious talk about without loss is that of "their very digni crying." ... United Way donations ty, their sense of being," said continued from page 1 Schwartz. it before. and we're hoping to handicapped, according to "The purpose of the pro see some exciting new ideas." Pollio. ''There are certain cases Mann's first buddy is still gram is to stimulate some The United Way allocates To become a United Way that I cannot talk about alive, but the most difficult creative and innovative pro money to non-profit rpember member organization eligible without crying," she con part of being a buddy is grams to meet community . organizations which provide for funding, the applicant tinued. "I've seen more deaths "knowing that [the victim is] problems," Pollio said. "high-priority" programs in agency must be in operation than I care to, because the going to die and knowing "In order to receive [CN&l] family counseling, day care, for three years, need financial buddies are frequently present there's nothing you can do to funding, an agency has to have substance · and child abuse assistance and have a paid at the time of death." stop that." a plan to help the community prevention, and transportation full-time executive officer, Each victim of AIDS is She added, "Learning to ac- in a way no one has ever done servi~es for the elderly and Pollio explained. assigned two or three buddies, cept that is really tough." --------------------------------~---------------March 24, 1987 • The Review •Page 3 Contra supporters deny media label as rights violators Draw crowd's opposition by Chris Lauer gram sponsors from the Inter Assistant News Editor national House. "The Contras are not, in Alario, a political science most cases, what they ha\re graduate from the University been portrayed as by the of California at San Diego, ex media," argued one of two plained, "A nation like speakers Thursday night Nicaragua poses no direct discussing the Contra's side of threat to the United States. the Nicaraguan conflict. We're not going to see The .. presentation, Nicaraguan soldiers landing "Nicaragua: A Revolution on our beaches. Betrayed," featured Salvador "What we have to address E. Stadthagen, a spokesperson and look at very closely are for the United Nicaraguan Op the other nations of Central position, and Christopher G. America as well as Mexico Alario, a spokesperson and and the nations to the south," THE .REVI research associate for the Na he added. Christopher G. Alario (left) and Salvador E. Stadthagen respond to a barrage of questions tional Center for Public Policy Confronting a number of on Thursday's speech, "Nicaragua: A Revolution Betrayed." Research .