Housing Jam: Campus Assaults Long-Term Fix Soar Must Be Found Figures Rise by Molly Gilmore $100 Housing Deposit If They 84 Percent and Dale Rife Cancel by Wednesday
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Our second Today's weather: century NO" PROfiT ORG Partly cloudy of excellence U 5 POSTAGE with chance PAID of showers, Ne\O'Wdrk Df"l high 65-70. Pefmtt N o 16 Vol. 113 No. 31 Student Center, University of De~ware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Tuesday, May 19, 1987 Housing jam: Campus assaults long-term fix soar must be found Figures rise by Molly Gilmore $100 housing deposit if they 84 percent and Dale Rife cancel by Wednesday. Staff Reporters Rexwinkel said housing and by Mary Kane residence life is not trying to Several weeks after most generate a large number of Staff Reporter students have received spaces by offering the refunds. Reported assaults on cam assignments for traditional However, she admitted that pus have risen 84 percent over housing, 554 are still waiting. roommate pairs are being of last year's figure, according to "We're confident that we fered refunds in order to James Flatley, assistant have enough spaces for all the create spaces for the 412 director of University Police. students on the list who want "The key word is analysis ' to be placed with a roommate. 'reported,' " Flatley stressed. Meanwhile, other students It is difficult to determine how who decide to cancel their many assaults are not upperclassmen who will con housing registration must reported, he explained. tinue to want housing, and for forfeit some or all of their The number of assaults per all the freshmen," said Dave deposit because of their hous year are calculated from one Butler, director of the Office of ing preferences. July to the next. From July Housing and Residence Life. 1985 to July 1986, Flatley said, According to Barbara Rex The refund measures were 36 assaults were reported. So winkel, associate director of apparently instituted to serve far this year, there have been residence life, 80 percent of the the needs of the Office of Hous 66 reported. ing and Residence Life. students on the waiting list According to Cpl . Brad should be placed by Aug. 1. After all, every student who Geesaman of Newark Police, The students will be given participates in the lottery is assault is considered "inten assignments as cancellations guaranteed housing. The only tionally or recklessly causing occur. way the university can provide physical injury to another To "relieve the pressure" on housing for every student who person." students waiting for housing, wants it, besides creating ex Rexwinkel explained, anyone tended housing, is to en Flatley said most of the at on the traditional/Pencader courage some students not to . tacks do not occur between waiting list and any roommate live on campus. strangers. "It's not outsiders," pairs in traditional housing he said. "It's roommate will receive a refund of their continued to page 4 against roommate." He added that assualts on residence hall floors general ly occur between neighbors. U.S. to face Cynthia Cummings, associate director of the Office of Housing and Residence Life, said, "Perhaps these fiscal crises, situations are more serious than in the past." Cummings THE REVIEW/ Fletcher Chambers added that more incidents are Walking tall-The Marine colorguard leads a company down being reported now than Main Street during Sunday's Memorial Day Parade. (see before. reporter says related story, p.3) Office of Housing and roses" for the president, he Residence Life Director Dave by William Zanowitz: of journalism. communicator," has fooled Hoffman, the 1973-74 editor the public as well as the press explained. Butler explained, "Some Staff Reporter of The Review who now by "not following up on what But Hoffman contended that students believe they have the "America has been having a reports on the presidency for he stood by during the Reagan made some fun right to hurt other people." party for the past eight years" the Post, said he was first election." damental budgetary mistakes He explained that in certain under R<mald Reagan, and assigned to cover Reagan in Under Reagan's leadership, that have yet to be corrected. situations some students can now··.faces the possibility of a 1980, when the presidential Hoffman said, the nation has "[Those mistakes] will affect not control their anger. "The politkal "hangover," accor candidate "was a nobody." lived through four different ad us all in the future." concept of hitting to solve pro ding to journalist and univer "Everyone expected ministrations, each lasting The most serious of these blems is a real concern," sity alumnus David Hoffman. Reagan to disappear from about two years. problems was "a serious Butler explained. Before a small but attentive sight,early in the primaries," Initially, he said, the ad mismatch of what this country To prevent crimes, Univer audience in Memorial Hall he explained. ministration was "an enor could spend and what it could sity Police patrol residence Sunday, Hoffman, a White Instead, Reagan's mous success" with an in take in," resulting in a chang halls, Flatley said, but there House correspondent for the "boundless optimism" carried crease in military spending, ing America. are not enough officers for Washington Post, discussed him to victory in 1980 and Congressional tax and budget After a two-year stint main every floor. the nation's future, his percep again in 1984, Hoffman said. cuts, and Reagan's survival of taining the "status quo, " the He said a general rule which tions of the presidency under But Hoffman believes a 1981 assassination attempt. period following Reagan's 1984 police try to recognize is that Reagan, and the current state Reagan, touted as "the great "Everything was coming up continued to page ~ continued to page 2 ... Hoffman continued from page 1 Former Review editor re-election saw "two years of intense public relations with popularity as the ultimate goal," Hoffman said. is making it big in D.C. But Reagan became "emo ··'by Dave Urbanski demonstrations. I think the biggest assemblage tionally wrapped up in things, Administrative News Editor of students was during a drunken brawl GJl including the hostages and the Main Street." contras," he concluded, while Leaning back in his swivel chair, White The year Hoffman served as Review editor major financial problems House correspondent David Hoffman proudly was "truly a subsiding period," he said. were ignored. THE REVIEW/ Fletcher Chambers surveys the fifth-floor newsroom of The "Although the war was changing," the Palo Washington Post. Last summer, Reagan David Hoffman Alto, California native declared, "the protests entered the final phase of his Lined with rows and rows of desks, each with were dying down." presidency, which has includ problems the next president its own computer display terminal, the red ed the uncovering of con will face". sound-proof carpet gives the mammoth office Hoffman, who entered the university as a troversies that have ruined his Among the problems facing a regal air. political science major, learned journalism "on image and cast doubt on his the future president are what The Post's office building on 15th Street in the seat of his pants," he said. ability to lead, specifically the Hoffman called "the twin Washington, D.C. is a far cry from the tiny of Hoffman began on staff as an assistant photo highly publicized Iran-contra towers of debt"- budget and fice on Academy Street where Hoffman serv editor and photo editor before he was elected affair. trade deficits. ed as editor of The Review when he was a editor of the entire paper- an unusual feat for This current period, Hoff But the Post reporter said he university junior in 1973. someone with minimal writing experience. believes the press is also at "Kids read the paper," he said. "People were man said, "will be viewed as "Usually, the editor was someone who could very important . nQ.t _S!> fault because it has failed to more ambivalent, although people took issue with everything you did." devote the time necessary," he explained. "I much for the goings-on during hold Reagan responsible for spent more time [at the paper] than the this administration, but for the his actions. Hoffman took the helm of The Review dur The press factored in "the ing turbulent times. The Watergate scandal and others." great postponement" of the the Vietnam War were issues that burned in the Hoffman spent so much time in the Review ... assaults problems this country now heart of many American campuses - and in office that by the end of his four years, he fail continued from page 1 faces, Hoffman said, by "tak The Review office. ed to accumulate enough credits for ''students like their privacy." ing politicians words on Unlike many college campuses during the graduation. Cummings said attempts issues." 1970s, the University of Delaware was not an are being made to counsel The press should "lean activist campus, Hoffman said. Leaving the university without his degree, students who are responsible against the wind," according "Some of us on the newspaper were activist Hoffman reported local politics for The Wilm for assaults. This summer, to Hoffman, instead of accep because we cared about what went on," Hoff-· ington News-Journal until April1977. Mter ac Housing and Residence Life ting things on the surface .. man maintained, adding that there were cepting a position at the fledging Capitol Hill will sponsor meetings for 'The press hasn't leaned "pockets of activism on campus." News Service in Washington, D.C., Hoffman re preventive programs in hostile against the wind enough," he "Streaking was big," he recalled, "but in the mained a fixture in lhe nation's capitol. emotions. said. beginning of the seventies there were not mass continued to page 14 The following people were selected for initiation into the Order of Omega National Honor ciety for Fraternities and Sororities: June Alt A~ Cynthia Moore I K William Barenborg I q, E Michael O'Donaghue IN Keith Christman OKA Jeff Orlov AHD Robert Coombs +K,.