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News Mosaic Sports Judge to decide {\~, ~f? All sex, all the time- ilens bow out of Big Capano's fate today -:-:rz!~'\ .the all-sex issue Dance, lose 62-52 · See page A6 1· · ~ See page Bl See page Cl An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • Non-Profit Org. ~Review Online • THE U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE www. review. udel. edu REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • Tuesday Volume 125, Number 40 March 16, 1999 Coming Apart at the Seams That's not Frosty last Tuesda : UD focuses on Part 1: The Story of Sweatshops Eri4.a)': Part II: ALook at Other Universities sweatshops, Till¥; Part Ill: W":rt is UD doing? Or not doinq? not disclosure BY GREGORY SHULAS has decided to write a code of products. Administrative News Editor conduct to protect itself from But the code is mi ssing two E ver since the Kathie Lee having its apparel made in important elements, according to Gifford sweatshop scandal of 1996 sweatshops. human rights activists. when it was discovered her Wai The uni ve rsity has been The code will not include public Mart fas hion line was being made coopera ting with the CLC, a n disclos ure and living wages. Public in oppressive conditions , the Atlanta-based firm that contracts di sclosure wou ld force the apparel industry hasn' t been the the school's logo, a long with 170 sportswear companies to make it same. olher schools, to sports wear publi cly known where their To make sure their comp-anies' manufacturers. overseas factories are located. names will not be assoCiated with H eaded by Li vi ng wages would ensure that sweatshops., apparel firms that the CLC and a the overseas w'orkers are paid an conduct overseas manufactudng committee of 14 adequate amount of money to live have been rushing to develop new Division 1-A · from. codes to rid their fo reign practices schools , the task force has been In the past two months, students from such controversy. working for a year-and-a-half to at Duke and Georgetown univer While the sc.andal was develop a code that will make sure sities have protested their schools e mbarrassing for Wal-Mart and sweatshops and university logos involvement with the cLc code Gi fford. universities across the never exist under the same roof. because it did not include living country cringed at the thought of a Ideally, the implemented code wages and public disclosure. similar scandal with their official would e nsure that c hild labor, Through their demonstrations, apparel. physical abuse, sexual harassment schools have decided to leave the To prevent -this, the top licenser and lack of overtime compensati on CLC behind and develop their own of collegiate apparel in the country, never occur at overseas plants codes, which wo uld include the two the Collegiate Licensing Company, making CLC-linked college logo see UNIVERSITY page A 7 · Heagy to run against Farrell for frrst district BY DOMENICO MONTANARO . Sporrs Editor Susan H eagy officially annou.nced her candidacy Monday for Newark's first di strict City THE REVfEW/ Bob Weill Council seat, running against John Snowbound students made a special creation on Harrington Beach in Sunday's storm. Farrell on a platform of fair representation a nd open government. The Newark res ident and clinical manager at the DuPont Hos pital for Chi·ldren in Wilmington said she wants a City Blue Hens get support in Council which wi ll adequately represent the ci ti zens of Newark. Heagy, who has a son who graduated from the university and another who is a part-time student, said she feels City Council mu st first-roundtoumey loss THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill improve· its re lations with the Susan Heagy announces her candidacy against City universit y. Councilman John Farrell in Newark's first district. BY MELISSA SCOTT SINCLAIR "The 1ty of Newark and the Studt:m Ajfuirs Editor University of Delaware sho uld · people li te rall y would not be able · times like Winter Session w hen Although the Blue Hens lost to the wo rk together," she said. "I moved to rent out their homes if they took there can be no student oppo sition. Voluntee rs in Friday's first-round here I 0 years ago because it 's a a vacati on or went on sabbatical. "That is a perfect example of NCAA basketball !!a rne , it was universi ty town with lots of things "There is plenty of housing the clear di scrimination and no fai r Delaware tha t triu;nphed in the. going on.'' available. The council is acting representation.'' she said. " We stands. Heagy said she thinks the rental discrimimitorily against students. have a lot of smart. responsible "Everywhere you looked there was cap proposals are an example of "It's expen ive enough to go to people going to college here. blue and ye ll ow,'' freshman Tim the un fa irness depl oyed by the city coll ege and st ud ent s a re working " If [the city] is wo rried about Bollenbach said. onto property owners and students. now mo re than ever just to pay noise problems, there are laws in He was one o( hundreds of students "The way it stands, regular their expenses." p lace that take care o f th ose ~ h o scrou nged · for ti ckets and pe ople and property owners woul d Heagy said she was upset by the · things." endured a nine-hour drive in order to be hurt by this," she said. "In my fact that student-related issues like c heer on the Blue Hens a t the area. which is mostly residential, the rental cap are vo ted on during see HEAGY page A4 Charlotte Coliseum. For many, the adventure began at midnight on Thursday, when the bus provided by the uni versit y departed fo r North Carolina. Rolling Stone's tunes "It was an incredibly long ride;" sophomore Becky Cammauf said. "Everyone fell asleep around 3 or 4 BY JENNIFER WHITELEY a.m ." Srajf Repmur Senior Joaquin Hurtado agreed. "It Afri can American and white music are not as different was long. It was long," he re peated as people make them out to be. said a Rolling Stone mu ic adding that at least the eight movies ~ritic Friday night at the Perkins Student Center. they watched helped pass the time. Ed Ward gave a speech, which focused on the common The bus full of 40 sleepy students thread that unites African American and white music to a 'arrived in Charlotte around 9 a.m., but crowd of30 the Coliseu m was no t yet ope n. "I would like to rem ind racists of both colors that the Hurtado said they didn't mind the product of American music is not so cut-and-dry. or hall wait, however. we say, black and white," Ward said. "It was actually fun .'' he said . "A ll Despite the racism in America. he aid music has still the people from Delaware were found a way to build unexpected bridges. tailgating." However, the road to mu sical integration has been a Boll enbach. who drove to the game hard and bitter journey. along with five friends, said arrivi ng Ward said slavery is what first bro ught on the at the stadium was ltl;.:e coming home. integration of African mu ic and European mu ic. "The first thing we saw when we When slaves began singing sp iritual hymns to please pulled up in the parking lot wa UD their masters. the two conflicting groups managed to fans everywhere." he said. " It wa just weave their first musical tapestry. he said . amazin g.'' THE REVIEW/ Peter Zabowski '·African American influence was very ubdued in the Sophomore Dan Rosman, a member of the "6th Man" crowd, Ed Ward speaks to students about threads in beginning because it was looked at through European see HENS page A4 cheers on the Hens at Friday's game. music that unite African Americans and whites. see ROLLING STONE page A 7 A2 • THE REVIEW • March 16, 1999 University may National be chosen for News Briefs accreditation BY DREW VOL TURO program national recognition and ABORTION CLINIC BOMBING INVESTIGATED Sraff Reporter would help students. ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Authorities investigating the weekend The National Council for " It would be nice to have outside bombing at an abortion clinic said yesterday they have no evidence Accreditation of Teacher Education is confirmation that what we' re doing is to link the crim e to serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph, but looking for a few good schools. and good," she said. "Also, we see it as a_ they're not ruling it out, either. the university may be one of them. way to market university students." ··w e have no evidence, at thi s time, that thi s bomb is the work Five hundred of the Jiati:Jn 's 1,250 Vukelich said education students of Eric Rudolph ," U.S. Attorney Mark Calloway told a news colleges with teacher-education would have the benefit of telling THE REV IEW/ Bob Weill conference at the Asheville federal building. "lt is too early, of programs have NCATE accreditation. · employers they graduated from a The university is in the running to be accredited by NCATE. course, to draw any conclu ions. We are committed to following The university, which is attempting to university that meets national quality every lead to its logical end and go to wherever the evidence takes join, hopes to find out whether it has standards.