In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Sprinter Mark Preview to Fields takes off summer movies with track and concerts page BS page B1 FREE TUESDAY Disabled students crippled by university apathy 0 Lisa intended to study biology at the assistive technology the university had to make any accommodations necessary to Administration !XJ~~~:~N~ Er:;,: university after receiving her two-year offer. meet the needs of qualified disabled She was not always legally blind. associate degree from the Philadelphia "I was told there was all this special individuals who are admitted into She did not always require the aid of Community College. equipment here," Lisa says. "What they academic programs. enlarged text and special computer However, when her vision deteriorated have leaves a lot to be desired." This includes providing disabled unresponsive to equipment to complete her school work. Lisa is not alone. students with any auxiliary aids. such as In fact, when Lisa Scardigli (AS JR) State officials say she and other note takers, computer software and applied to the university last February as a • News analysis disabled students have been lured to the enlarged text, which they need to obligations of transfer student she had not yet been university only to find conditions which successfully complete their course work. diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a to the point where she could not read are in violation of a federal disabilities University President David P. Roselle degenerative disease of the central nervous printed text, let alone see through a discrimination law. says administrative officials are working system which would slowly rob her of her microscope. she realized she would have The Americans with Disabilities Act to improve the on-campus facilities for the 1991 disability act vision. to change her major and find out what (ADA) of 1991 requires the university to see HANDICAP page A4 Funding aids research, angers student groups Department of Defense money at center of con'troversy By Matthew Gray University policy prohibits any research Copy Editor undertaken at the university that is classified. Just because you don't know about it "We don' t do any classified research at doesn't mean it's a secret. While the all," Varrin says. All research conducted at Pentagon is funding research at the the university must be publishable, fie says, . university, there is no classified work on though it does not have to be published. stealth technology or super-secret spy But student groups say accepting money systems. from the military goes beyond the nature of Instead, the Defense Department-funded the nature of the research. projects undertaken by about 20 university professors are all open to public scrutiny and The Lesbian Gay Bisexual• Student Union vary from studying properties of magnets to (LGBSU) has opposed this funding, citing experimentation with barnacles. the military's refusal to admit homosexuals One research program at the university into their ranks. involves learning how to dispose of toxic Chris Egan (NU SR), co-president of the materials in high-· temperature water. Others LGBSU, says because the university claims it look at how to prevent marine organisms is devoted to diversity, it is hypocritical to from adhering to surfaces. accept military funding. Though some campus groups object to the "It goes against everything they are Defense Department's involvement in saying," she says. university research, administrators and Tom Rooney (AS JR), a member of the researchers maintain there is no need for Student Environmental Action Coalition, concern. says the group also objects to the Defense The university received about $2.3 million Department funding because of the military's in the 1991 fiscal year to conduct basic policy on homosexuals. research for the Defense Department, While the research is basic and some of according to the university's Office of the programs have helpful applications in Sponsored Programs Administration. through areas such as medicine, Rooney says he is which all funding passes. concerned about the source. Basic research, which has no immediate "You have to ask yourself in all these A Yankee Doodle day_ Marching his way down Main Street Sunday, a fife player helps Newark celebrate military application, is the only type of cases. what is the military interest in this'/" be the 57th annual Memorial Day Parade. More photos on page 3 Defense Department-sponsored research at says. · the university, says Roben Varrin, associate R. Byron Pipes, provost and vice president. trovost for Research. see FUNDING pase AS . LeMond wins Tour Du Pont ' was all over, when the race officials ~Jr!i~~~~~ Jones time trial through the streets of the were packing up the banners and nation's capital. Sour grapes WASHINGTON - It was a folding up the guard rails outside The ear-to-ear smile LeMond grueling test in heat and cold, in RFK Stadium after the final time wore at the race's end spoke of torrential showers and arid plains. trial Sunday, American Greg many things : satisfaction, Driveway dispute closes family produce stand with back breaking climbs and LeMond of the Z team had once jubilation, relief and, most By Chris Dolmetsch driveway,'' she says. "He told me Mayer says, and has been given death-defying 60 mph descents. again proven the age-old adage - importantly for the California SWf Repot!er it was none of my business." numerous notices to leave. It was a close contest. with no the best man had indeed won. native, pride. All Carolyn Sweeny wanted But Eric Mayer, Jr., one of her · Sweeny's son ran the business one truly dominating the rest of the LeMond, America's greatest "I'm proud to have won this was a driveway for her customers landlords, disagrees. until December 1991· when he field but a handful of the very best cyclist and arguably one of the race, he said at a post-race press to parkin. "She is three months behind went bankrupt. She took over the vying for the final victory. world's best riders of all time, conference inside RFK. Her store, Sweeny's Cash and on her rent," Mayer says. "She store because she feared she But when the 1992 Tour Du Pont clinched the Tour with a brilliant seeTOUR page AS Carry on Elkton Road, is a small was asked to leave about a year "would lose everything." farm stand that her family has nm ago. Sweeny called the Delaware ...---INDEX------. for the last nine years. "I don't really expect to get the Department of Transportation Recently. she put a sign, easily rent." (DELDOn in January and asked Colleges Across the NationA2 readable from the road, outside Sweeny has a monthly lease, see PRODUCE page A4 Perot added to state her shop that reads: "No Campus Briefs .................. .A2 Driveway I Forced to Move I Classifieds ......................... 87 Who is Responsible? I Who is the Comics .. .. .. .. ...................... 89 Uar? I Where are my Rights?' Ughter Side ........................A3 ballot, leads polls The sign, she says, is a result Police Report ........ .. .......... .A2 of several years of frustration. Review and Opinion ..........A6 By Tracy Keil attracted extensive publicity about Sweeny's husband, who Sports ... ............................. 85 sr~ff /«,porter his possible bid for the presidency. originally ran the store, was killed He's a Texas billionaire trying to A CNN-Time magazine poll two years ago in a car accident as ---Also iHsidt: --- round up enough signatures to get released Saturday reported that if he was coming out of the store's on each state's November ballot as a the election were held today, 33 entrance. presidential candidate. percent of the nation would vote for "I've been losing business," And because H. Ross Perot Perot, while 28 percent would vote she says, "because people don't collected enough signatures to be for President George Bush and 24 want to come back unless the put on the state ballot. Delawareans percent would vote for Arkansas entrance is fixed." will have the chance to vote for him Gov. Bill Clinton. The store's entrance is gravel, as president, even though Perot has So far Perot has made the ballot and the tum onto Elkton Road is yet to announce his candidacy. in Tennessee, Maine, Utah and, as steep and difficult to maneuver In February, Perot said on of May 12, Delaware. Many and when she wanted to pave the national television that if volunteers political analysts predict Perot will entrance, she encountered gathered enough signatures to put be on all 50 state ballots by difficulty. THf REVIEW I P.mel1 Wrll'f De him on the ballot in every state, he November. "I asked my landlord if they Carolyn Sweeny of Newark stands outside her produce Profile of controversl.al would run for president as an f.aculty senator Perot, 61 , who grew up in were going to come fix the market on Elkton Road displaying her sign of frustration. independent candidate. Tuarkana, Texas, is a self-made Since then, the billionaire has seePEROT p~e AS 1n brie May 19, 1992 • THE REVIEW. A2 Russian news writers find The week of May 17 will be the first of front of the entrance to the many to inform students. faculty and parents Rodney Dining Hall, which freedom a difficult adjustment about disabled individuals. will connect to the proposed The week will involve a day of role playing. convenience store, said Russian journalists are having trouble The ODA will provide crutches, blind folds Stewart. A big screen adjusting to a free press since the removal of and manual wheel chairs to the students and television is also planned, but censorship there, said a Russian writer faculty involved.