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Today's weather: A four-star All-A merican NON PRO FIT O RG Rain, rain and newspaper U S POSTAGE more rain. High PAID near 60. NeWJrk D el Perm II N o 26 Vol. 114 No. 28 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, May 6, 1988 Classes 'DUSC seeks limited ,no-cheating in BU commitment ',' by Michael Schwartz Staff Reporter The Delaware school Undergraduate Student Con gess is drafting a proposal by Bryan K. Wilkes which would require all Staff Reporter university students to sign a pledge vowing academic honesty, according to DUSC The College of Business and President Rick Crossland. Economics will begin restric Crossland said the tentative ting all 400-level business ad "honor commitment" pro- ministration courses to only majors next fall, said Linda S. see editorial, p.8 Dunn, assistant dean of the eolIege. posal also calls for an oral The policy change closes the pledge from freshman during courses to all other majors opening convocation. within the college, except Furthermore, all students think, 'I'm a gutless slimeball ''those students whose pro will have to sign every exam that has no integrity.' gram requires it," Dunn said. stating they have not cheated: "We need to train kids to be In reality, Dunn explained, Crossland said the exam honest people," he said. JIOIl-majors who request the pledge would likely be worded, The honor commitment will departnient's 400 level courses "I have neither given nor be drafted by a committee of usually do not get them. received any aid on this ex students, faculty and ad "What is happening, is the am." ministrators, Crossland said, students are going through all He said he hopes the honor although no selection criteria that drop/add trouble for the commitment will raise the has yet been established for 4OO-level classes and not get consciousness of students and possible members. tmgthem," she said. "At best, make them think before Dean of Students Timothy F. tbey're hoping to be wait-listed cheating - "a serious pro Brooks said "something this because there is no more room blem" at the university. big" would likely have to go in the 400-level courses." "If nothing else, it will re before the full Faculty Senate mind [students] of the risk " By taking an "up front" ap continued to page 13 proach, the policy change he said. "It will make thein should prove beneficial to students, she said. "We hope to alleviate some of the frustration a student Biden recovers feels when that student comes in to drop/add and finds no available space," she said. '''Ibe student will know ahead of time and make alternative from surgery plans." Moreover, the change Sen. Joseph R. Eiden hospitalization expected to should alleviate some of the Jr.(D-Del.) underwent last 10 days, Stueve said. C • THE REVIEWI Eric Russell Similar surgery was per ''taffic'" in the department . anlne cap~rs - Pharah, mother of 36 puppies, flies a kite surgery Tuesday. to repair during drop/add, she said. m her spare tIme at Carpenter State Park. an aneurysm on an artery formed Feb. 12 to correct a Joy Ilerning (BE 91) agrees that supplies blood to the larger, life-threatening the administrative decision major Eric Koenick disagrees. brain, said a spokesman of aneurysm on one side of whose major requires them. Biden's brain. A March 13 will likely benefit business ~oenick, who is trying to get "We felt that we wanted to the Walter Reed Medical students. mto the Department of Center in Washington D.C. blood clot detected in one of "From what I understand, Business Administration, said allow students who are not Jim Stueve, public affairs Biden's lungs caused doc it's really tough for business . his predicament is only made business majors to take our s~ialist of the hospital, tors to delay the second majors to get courses they more difficult by the new saId the ex-presidential surgery nearly two months. Deed," Berning said. "Maybe policy. courses, so that's \yhy we candidate was in satisfac Steuve said extensive it will make life a little easier "I think it stinks," Koenick didn't restrict the 300-level tory condition following testing showed no signs of for some people." said. "Personally, I think the surgery. additional aneurysms. Jim Burdette (BE 89) said, university shouldn't be that classes," the administrator An aneurysm is a "The senator is awake ''I don't see a problem with close-minded to someone in explained. swollen, blood-filled dilation and alert, oriented, moving [the change] because by the my situation." of a blood vessel in danger all extremities well and is lime you're a junior. you're Dunn noted that some There are no current plans, of bursting. conversing with his fami &Qing to be declared anyway." universities restrict all she said, to restrict any other Biden will return home to ly," he explained. However, junior economics business courses to those classes within the collef!e. recuperate following - Ted Spiker Page 2 • The Review. May 6, 1988 -------------------------------------------- News Look: The world in brief No indictments in Massachusetts Gov. Michael Polish workers demanding already received his first victory. Dukakis won primaries in In pay increases and the legaliza payment. In the last five years the MOVE decision diana and Ohio, with the Rev. tion of Solidarity. State Attorney General Germans have overtaken Jesse Jackson winning in the Solidarity leader Lech Leroy S. Zimmerman an American producers, especial A grand jury's decision on District of Columbia, accor- . Walensa told the striking nounced he has filed charges ly in the u.S. markets. Tuesday - deClared ding to The News-Journal. workers, "If we do not carry against the two men for Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson The Associated Press out perestroika <r:estructur forgery, theft, theft by decep Goode and his aides not wor estimated that Dukakis would ing), if we do not make tion, criminal conspiracy, Israelis withdraw thy of criminal indictment, but . acquire about 180 delegates reforms peacefully together unlawful use of a computer from Lebanon after said their actions in the 1985 from the three primaries and with the nation and with com and tampering with public MOVE bombing displayed Jackson would get about 70 promises, then we are information. 'limited search' "morally reprehensible delegates. threatened with a revolution, behavior," according to The Vice President George and a bloody one." News Journal. Bush, who already has enough Germany claims The investigation, which delegates for the Republican lasted nearly two years and Two men arrested top spot in the Approximately 1,000 Israeli nomination, easily won the troops have pulled out of cost $250,000, yielded a 16-4 primaries in both states. chemical world vote against indictment. in Pa.lottery fraud Lebanon within 24 hours of "No credible evidence what crossing the border, The soever was presented to Solidarity demands News-Journal reported. establish that police fired their Germany claims the top The action was described as weapons or did anything im political change Two men were charged spots in the competition for a limited search operation to proper in the back alley the together for producing a chemical sales world-wide, ac flush out Palestinian evening of May 13," District fraudulent lottery ticket in the cording to The Wall Street guerrillas. Attorney Ronald Castille said. Pennsylvania Super-7 jackpot Journal. Lebanese sources claimed The police bombings, which The outlawed Solidarity last week, The Philadelphia The top three companies in about 500 troops were flown in resulted in eleven deaths and union warned the Polish Inquirer reported. 1987 were BASF, Bayer and before dawn in an area north consumed 60 other houses, government Tuesday it faced The $15.2 million lottery of Hoechst, ranking from $23-25 of the United Nations zone. were described by the jury widespread unrest if it.refus July 15 had been unclaimed billion in sales on the average. At least 180 Palestinians, in panel as "this city's greatest ed to commit itself to major until Mark S. Herbst, 33, turn The three companies were addition to an Israeli soldier tragedy." political change, The New ed in the winning ticket. created after World War II and some Jewish settlers, York Times reported. The ticket had been made by when the giant I.G. Farben have been killed since the Dukakis wins Ohio, Riot police surrounded computer expert Henry A. chemical monopoly, which rebellion against Israeli oc the Lenin shipyard Tuesday, Rich, 33, with Herbst acting as aided Hitler's war effort, was cupation began in December Indiana; Bush rolls the second day of a strike by his "pigeon". Herbst has disbanded with the Allies' of last year. -----------------------------::----------------~-May 6,1988· The Review. Page 3 Jones revamps minority board by Lynne Zeiger an acknowledged problem of plained, "and to bring about a within the university." seats are held by students. racial relations within all more positive change in rela Jones said, "Our campus is Staff Reporter aspects of the campus com "Students have a legitimate The Commission to Promote enriched by the contributions concern and definite view munity - students, faculty and the full participation of points on what should be Racial and Cultural Diversity and staff. "There is an was recently formed by Presi people from different changed," Sills explain "The commission will make acknowledged pro backgrounds, and the status of ed, "and it makes sense to in dent Russel C. Jones "to aid in recommendations concerning blacks and other minorities the creation of an intellectual changes in both attitudes and blem of racial rela volve them and benefit from ly, culturally and socially will receive the commission's their ideas." behavior throughout the tions within all priority attention." Faculty and administrators diverse educational communi university," she added.