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In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Colfegiate Press Four-Star All-American Ne wspaper Fearins faces and a National Pacemaker Pearl Jam hands toughest you another opponent perfect creation page 85 page Bl FREE FRIDAY University proposes tightening its money belt BY MSRIAC. CENTENERA university's administrative units, will be inflation. revenues from 23.8 percent in fiscal year "I think there will be little impact on SlaftRtporter presented to the university's budget council "By reductions, we mean we can' t 1989-90 to 20.2 percent in fiscal year 91-92. students," he said. The fifth year of a "big crunch" in the during hearings later this month. continue doing all the things we've been " Over the last three years, they have College deans have been cautious in their university's budget is forcing colleges to Murray said the university has had to deal doing up until now," he said. increased at an average annual rate of just projections for next year's budget. Several reevaluate their current programs and with budget constraints for several years Murray pointed to the national recession over 1 percent and that's in a period when indicated that cuts have become increasingly priorities, according to Richard Murray, now. and flat growth in state appropriations to the the Consumer Price Index is increasing at an difficult. interim university provost. "The first year that the university had to university as reasons for the university's average rate of about4 percent," he said. Dr. Allen Waterfield, dean for the College Letters were sent by Murray's office to all deal with a significant budget problem was budget problems. Murray admitted reductions in the of Physical Education, said: "There are no academic deans requesting outlines of "how '89-'90, and we were able to handle budget "State appropriations have not kept up at university's funding have led to the cuts in easy cuts left. It's not going to make life any they would take a 1 or 2 percent reduction in reductions out of administrative costs," he all with the rate of inflation," he said. academic programs. easier." budget, and their priorities for new academic said. According to the university's office of He estimated that 20 percent of the budget John Nye, dean for the College of programs if additional funding is available," Murray explained while the university's institutional research and planning, state cuts since 1989 have gone to academic Agruculture, said, " We 're working on Murray said. budget continues to increase in dollar appropriations have decreased as a programs, with 80 percent directed at making cuts that would minimize the impact The proposals, along with those from the figures, the growth has not kept pace with percentage of the university's current administrative costs. see BUDGET page A4 University awarded Jobless, $7 million research grant AIDS: poverty BY IRAQ IARGAY Northwestern University and Ohio Copy Editor State University were among the 10 Facing Life for the physically disabled to receive research funding. rates on will never be simple, but through two Foulds said he was happy to federal grants awarded to the receive the federal funding· "because university and the A.l. duPont it gives us the chance to do the Institute in Wilmington, they will something we think we do verv well. the rise have an ev~n brighterfuture. "It's exciting to see the size of The two grants include $7 million these grants and to research Corporate down which will be received annually for - something that would benefit reality the next five years, President David society," Foulds said. "It's a new sizing cited as P. Roselle said. generation of devices for the BY RISA BEHMOIRAM Funded by the National Institute disabled." Staff Reporter local cause on Disability and Rehabilitation He explained the purpose of all of "If ,men are only Research, these "grants about double the research work is to "conduct BY LEANNE EVANS interested in one thing, Staff Reporter the size· of our research program," creative research projects which lead why do they like beer so Although the United States is said Richard Foulds, director for to new technology for people with much?" Applied Science and Engineering disabilities." coming out of a recession, Advertisement messages Delaware's unemployment rate is on Laboratories (ASEL) and research The grants were awarded for such as this and others professor in computer and research in the fields of augmentative the rise. which relate alcohol with The unemploym ent rate rose information sciences. communication and robotics, Foulds sex contrib'ute to college "Ten grants were awarded across said. slightly to 5 percent in August 1993 students' confusion in from 4 .8 percent in July 1993, the country," Foulds said. "It was The augmentative communication dealing with prevention of very competitive and we received grant, split into 12 projects, is long reflecting the conti nued sluggishness the transmission of the in the state's labor market, said two of the 10 grants." term research to enhance the quality HIV virus, said . Dr. Malcolm Davis, associate director of a disabled human's speech, he Edward Simon, labor mqrket analyst Richard Keeling, for the Delaware Department of for program development for the said. Chairman for the National Institute on Disability and "These projects deal with the kind Labor. American College of Simon predicted the jobless rate Rehabilitation Research, agreed that of person who cannot comm)lnicate Health Association' s Task receiving two multimillion dollar through speech," Foulds said. " It's will rise to 5.5 percent by the end of Force on HIV Disease. this year as a result of both corporate grants is a very high achievement for not a mental problem, it's a physical Keeling spoke Monday the university. problem." downsizing and the slow economy. about Acquired Immune James Butkiewicz, associate dean "As far as I can remember no The grants will aid in a new Deficiency Syndrome other school has been rated this high project in gesture recognization and for the College of Business and (AIDS), a disease that THE REVIEW /Walter M. Eberz Economics, said the most serious in two different fields by the an improved speech synthesizer degenerates the immune scientific peer reviewers," Davis said. which produces electronic speech, he Dr. Richard Keeling discusses HIV and AIDS with a student factors contributing to Delaware's system. following his speech Monday night. slow recession recovery are the Scientific peer reviewers are the said. Students must individuals who evaluate the "Our approach is to produce elimination of positions by DuPont reevaluate their self is no longer enough." Services, estimated that and the upcoming 1996 closing of applications and proposals sent frOm speech that is very intelligible and esteem and their s upport With 2.3 per 1,000 college there are 30 to 40 cases of different universities. see GRANT page A 10 General Motors Corp. local for their community in students across the country H IV on campus, based on Boxwood Road plant, which will cut the national average. order to successfully infected with HIV, he said thousands of jobs. contribute to the battle there is a need for a new "This number is no larger Simon said, "We are a small state than the amount of cases on Dover teen dies after against AIDS, Keeling perspective on how to tackle affected by our neighbors. said. the epidemic, such as other campuses," Lomax "We have many credit card and "Ninety-five percent of instilling healthy social said. construction companies in Delaware, all college students know values among family and Many students' inability he said. "If surrounding states' shooting self in school how to prevent themselves friends. to deal with the threat of economies are down, less money is AIDS stems from their peers from getting infected with Annie Lomax, assistant available and they are less able to BY PEJER HARJOGS Although police are still HIV," Keeling said. "This director for Student Health see AIDS page A4 buy and our economy suffers." Staff reporter investigating where she got the gun, Butkiewicz said the nation is A 16-year old Dover High School Cooper said, "Everybody knew she see JOBLESS page A4 student shot herself in the head was carrying a gun in her bookbag Tuesday after locking herself in a fora month. school bathroom, Dover Police said. "She was bright enough to have Kent General Hospital officials obtained the gun from somewhere said Laura Moyer, who left no note where it couldn't be traced," he said. Vietnam veteran advocates non-violence indicating the reasoning behind her Cooper added that he believed suicide, was on life support systems "she didn't want to put the blame on Five years ago Carmody began and in critical condition before she anyone." After servinR in combat, 1 ohn to practice his non-violence theorv was pronounced dead at I :30 p.m. The school will provide free after he attended a seminar called Wednesday. counseling for all Dover High Carmody renounces evils of war. "The Theology of Christ." One of the girl's close friends and students who need it, said Cecil At that time, he also began to a former Dover High student, Jay Wilson, associate principal. BY LYDIA SAMPSON through non-violence and love. study the dimensions of Greek Cooper (AS SO), said, "Laura Moyer The timing of the suicide is Staff Reporter "To violently try to get someone love. Agape is the willingness to was incredibly intelligent," he said. somewhat ironic since Rep. Michael When Oliver North visited the to change in order to bring people suffer without the desire for "She was an incredible person all N.