Today's - weather: Cloudy and NON PROfiT ORG US POSTAGE cold. Chance PAID of snow. Newark. Del ., Permtt No 26 Highs in the 30s. ' Vot 111 No. 40 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, March 7, 1986 r '~Budget cuts to · cost university $2 million by '88 of the Student Code of by Dave Urbanski Conduct. Assistant-News Editor The new policy. which was The university is slated to created in response to the lose as much as $2 million in harassment of gay and lesbian federal funding for building students in the past two years. maintenance, utility and other broadens the scope of the administrative costs over the policy, Dean of Students next two years. Timothy Brooks said. The proposed cuts, part of The revised code redefines the Gramm-Rudman deficit harassment as "deliberately reduction plan. are scheduled acting with intent to harass to begin April 1, Provost L. any member or guest of the Leon Campbell told the univer­ university community" based sity Faculty Senate during its on the person's race, sex, meeting Monday. religion, political beliefs, sex­ "We cannot accept this ual orienlation or disability. change," university Treasurer The original policy specified Robert Harrison said. only racism, sexism and anti­ The Federal Office of Semitism a~ harassment. Management and Budget is in Todd Christie <AS 86), a charge of reducing the funds, Delaware Undergraduate Stu­ which are known as indirect dent Congress•representative costs, Harrison said. to the Faculty Senate, said he The university . faculty was pleased with the policy favors the cuts in indirect change. costs, he said, because funding Christ.ie said in the past he THE REVIEW/ Charles Fort for direct costs, whieh support was unsure of the meaning of Tunnel vision - Early afternoon shadows seem to put Smith Overpass in perpetual motion. faculty and graduate _student "harassment" and wanted the research, will increase at· the definition broadened so eyery same rate the indirect costs group and individual on cam­ decrease. pus would be protected under The government is allowing the student code. Police arrest UD student universities only a :w-day "The university is worried public comment period to con­ about student groups organiz­ test the proposed cutbacks, ing against minorities," he on second drug offense Harrison said. said. As an example, he said, "A comment period of 90 groups should have as much by Meg Goodyear and and drug paraphernalia, and secured bond. days, six months, and even a right to protest against with maintaining a dwelling year is usually allowed by the homosexuality as homosex­ Alice Brumbley government." he said. uals do to protest for their News Editors for drugs, according to police. Police met with Eill Newark Police have no In other business, the senate cause. "as long as groups don't · Newark police arrested two revised the harassment policy continually badger others." Wednesday as part of their in­ suspects but are investigating . Towne Court Apartments vestigation of a Main Street an attempted armed robbery residents, one a university stu­ burglary that occurred in ear­ just outside the Student Center dent, Wednesday after finding ly February, police said. While last Thursday. DUSC checks pulse marijuana and cocaine in their speaking with him in the A university sophomore was apartment. hallway of the apartment walking near the 24-hour bank The student, Eric Touchton, building, an officer asked to tellers outside the Student of 231 Thorne Lane, had been for yearly progress use Eill's telephone. Center at about 9:00 p.m. A out on bond awaiting trial for Entering the apartment, the man loitering nearby spoke, a drug-related arrest in officer saw Touchton alledged­ grabbed her around the neck, by Melissa Jacobs December. He had been ly smoking marijuana and threatened her with a knife Student Affairs Editor charged then with trafficking holding drug paraphernalia, and told her to give him any cocaine and four other drug­ "If we are all content with according to police. money or drugs she had, police · the victories of today." said related charges. Police placed the apartment reported. In this recent arrest. DUSC President Bob Teeven, under security until obtaining He released her without in­ "we cannot expect to move Touchton, 20, was charged jury after she convinced him with possession of cocaine, a search warrant. A search of forward- we can only expect the apartment uncovered a th~t she had nothing, police to fall back." marijuana and drug parapher­ small amount of cocaine in ad­ saJd, and he chased her brief­ nalia. and with maintaining a dition to the marijuana and lv as she fled. see editorial p.6 dwelling for the ·purpose of drug paraphernalia, police · The suspect is described as keeping and using drugs, reported. a 6-foot, l-inch white muscular police reported. The two men were taken--in­ male in his early 20s, with In his State of the Delaware Brian Eill, 20, also of 231 to custody; Touchton was unkempt dark hair, full beard, Undergraduate Student Con­ Thorne Lane. was charged released on $8,000 secured a white cut-off T-shirt, shorts gress address Monday. with possession of marijuana bail, and Eill was released on and no shoes. Teeven reported DUSC's ac- Bob Teeven continued to page 16 ~ • t , f IL "' . \" . 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Page 2 • The Review • March 7, 1986 ___________________________..;.. ________ _ ....;;._ ______ UD commission proposes new standards is to maintain the same class by Stacy Mayhew ty, Murray said. sensitive to, and accepting of, Starting with children in fifth The committee's proposal the needs of all members of grade, the university is trying time as in the current calen­ Assistant News Editor will be presented to the Facul­ society'" he said. to inform students and their dar, so that by increasing the "We want the poets to study ty Senate at a special meeting The university has taken an parents on how to prepare to length of class periods, the some science and the in March or at their regular active role in trying to attract become well-educated, he number of class meetings engineers to study some April meeting. black students to the universi­ said. would be reduced." poetry," Dean of Education In other business, Trabant ty through campus visitation The number· of blacks on According to the report, Frank Murray told the Presi­ reported on the progress of the programs, black alumni campus has increased to about shorter semesters would allow dent's Council Wednesday. Title VI Plan implementation. ·phone-a-thons to black ap­ 460 students in the 1985-86 for a fall break similar to Murray, a member of the plicants, staff visits, and ear­ school year, Trabant said, spring break. First semester Title VI is a five-year program university Commission on ly admission and financial aid compared to about 1~,000 classes would begin after Undergraduate Education, whose goal.is to increase the packages for black applicants, white students on campus. Labor Day if the calendar is presented the commission's number of black students on he said. In other matters, alternative accepted. proposals for academic im­ campuses. However, Trabant said, academic calendars for the In other business, a report provements and curriculum According to Trabant, the goals for resident black 1987-88 academic year were by RSA President Dave Beau­ changes during the council's plan has had a "positive in­ students attending the univer­ presented. Class periods of 60 doin prompted the committee monthly meeting. fluence on the campus." The sity have not thus far been and 90 minutes per meeting to agree to look into the Among the revisions sug­ number of blacks attending, met. are proposed, rather than the transportation problem gested by the commission are: graduating from, and working The university started an current 50 and 75 minute students face trying to get to • an increase in the number at the university has increas­ education awareness program periods. agriculture classes on time, of required liberal arts ed, Trabant said. several years ago in New Cas­ According to the proposed while the Route 896 bridge re­ courses; "It has also made us more tle County, the president said. calender report, "the purpose mains closed for repairs. • a reduction in class sizes, by adding more sections for popular classes; THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB, • an upgrading of admission the University of Delaware's standards for incoming Most Active International Club, students. is proud to present: If the changes are im­ plemented, the university has the potential to become distinctive for its undergraduate programs' re­ 66 quirements, university Presi­ INTERNATIONAL dent E.A. Trabant said. In order to provide each stu­ dent with a broad education, 'NIGHT'' the undergraduate commis­ sion is proposing that each university degree candidate complete 60 hours of There will be a wide array of music, singing, hum ani ties and sciences dancing and slides representing various na­ classes before graduating. tions from around the world. ''There is a lack of co~ererrce among the degree programs," Murray said. "There are important subject MARCH 7,1986 matters that students can 7:00-9:00 p.m. avoid during their course of Amy E. DuPont Music Bldg. study," he said. "We are trying to change the University of Delaware requirements so that students cannot go through the univer­ sity without covering some ADMISSION FREE liberal arts," he continued. The committee's proposal for a change in requirements includes a mandatory course of study, including: I • six credit hours of writing; THE DELAWARE HUMANITIES FORUM presents • three hours of Women's Studies; • three hours of Black American Studies; • nine hours qf comparative THE JUNIPER TREE culture; • nine credits of Western and by Nancy King non-Western Civilization.