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If passed, the resolution will be A Faculty Senate committee "Continuing to invest in companies that worth of common stock in companies that opposition to apartheid." presented to the board of trustees at its Ma1 recommends the university sell all its do business in Souih Africa is incompatible invest in South Africa. including Du Pont, However, Colton said there appear to be meeting. : holdings in companies with operations in with the university 's efforts to racially and Bristol Myers Squibb and International varied opinions among members of the In May 1988 the board of trusteea South Africa, saying its year-long Paper. board of trustees and adm inistrators. acknowledged the university's ant£:. investigation indicates unanimous campus See Editorial Page 6 The commiltee sought the opinions of At one point during the committee's apartheid stance but refused to totall:1 support for divestment. culturally diversify the campus," said David several campus and commun ity investigation , the board was slated to withdraw its investments, saying it woulll In a report re leased Wednesday, the L. Colton, chairman of the committee. organizations about divestment by receive an advance copy of the report, but lead to worse conditions for blacks in Soulfa Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Apartheid is a policy that segregates conducting interviews with administrators, both sides agreed it would take too much Africa. ~ Divestment stated the "University of South Africa by mandating where non faculty and student leaders, and holding time for the trustees to prepare a reply. Colton said all major AfricalJ Delaware has a moral and intellectual open hearings. whites can live and ~ork. It al so denies the T he senate is scheduled vote on a see DIVESTMENT page 4 Officials make plans for new student center ,. Daugherty Hall parking lot is planned site::~ By Gabri ela Marmo student needs, growing faculty ~ Assistant Features Editor staff and provide a bridge betweeP:: University officials have drafted the Newark community anU: a tentati ve plan to. build a new university students. : ~ student center, to accommodate Scott Mason, assistant directdc increased e nrollment and the of the student center, sailt growing needs of student Daugherty Hall parking lot is thCS: organizations. new building's anticipated site. =: Stuart J. Sharkey, vice president "The proposal still has manY: of Student Affairs, presented the gray areas," he said, "because it i( \ plan , which also includes the still in the planning stages." renovation of the Perkins Student Thou~h the cost of the new ., Center, to the Delaware center has not been determined: Undergraduate Student Congress Sharkey proposed a $10 fee per: (DUSC) Monday. student to be added to students' "It is very overcrowded now," semester bills to pay for Sharkey said, "and the need for a construction and renovation. new student center is a very The board of trustees needs to Pamela Wray DeStefano important and overwhelming discuss the plan at its meeting in· NIGHT ROBBERY Herman's Quality Meat Shoppe on East Cleveland Avenue was robbed Tuesday evening, causing $300 in student issue." May before it can approve the > damage to the shop, Newark Police said. The suspect, who entered the store by breaking a window, was apprehended by Marilyn S. Prime, director of the ideas, Mason said. -~ ' police at the scene of the crime. Police said they were notified of the incident by neighbors of the shop. student center, said a new center is lf the board accep~s th ~ . : needed to accommodate increased see STUDENT CENTER page 4 ~ 1 Professor Convocation center runs over budget By Melissa Gitter because building bids were higher The center, which is expect.ed to functions, Pohlig added, such as resolves Staff Reporter th an the pre-bid estimates. open in Au gust 1992, will hou se state athletic championships, bigger Construction of the new Bob The probable reason for the cost new athletic facilities a nd concerts and professional sports' Ca rpenter Sports/Con vocation increase is the complex ity of th e classrooms, said Kate Pohlig, events. • hostage Center may cost $2 million more building's design, Hollowell said. assistant athletic director. Many of these functions will than expected, officials said The university, which began The new building will increase generate profits for the university, Tuesday. building the faci lity last week, will seating capacity for events to 5,087 Hollowell said. ~ situation The building's cost has risen be reviewing the bids it received to seats, she sa id, as opposed to 2,100 Changes in the center's design ~ from $18 million to $20 million, determin e wheth er cos ts can be seats in the Delaware Field House. and mechanical systems arc also Man surrenders said David E. Hollowell, senior vice lowered, and administrators may This larger number of scats will president for Administration, ask contractors to re-bid. enable th e university to host bigger see CONVOCATION page 4 to Chuck Stone Chuck Stone in Philadelphia ...crisis his fifth hostage situation about injustices in the justice By Suzanne Young system and they trust him. St~:"de_(l: t evangelists hit Da . ..... /.. ' ~";lj · .~:-l; StaffReporter Stone, senior editor of the At about 10 p.m. Monday Philadelphia Daily News, said he Campus church group Chuck Stone got the call. has gained a reputation as The university English professor "someone who's forthright and not will preach Qn the beach and syndicated columnist put on afraid to take on power structures his Philadelphia Daily News thatabuse." . By Michael Rossi Staff Rtiporter "combat hat" as he always docs Stone said suspects call on him when risky situations arise. because they think he'll guarantee VolUptuous tan bodies, a steady flow of In his 19-year career as a their fair treatment. alcohol and thousands of string bikinis will Philadelphia journalist, he has "They feel like I'll be a · · mark the hot white beaches of the South tJ1is been called on to act as a neutral protective shield so they won't be .year. mediator between police and brutalized," he said, making a Or ~tleast most students imagine this scene criminal suspects 71 times. Before reference to the the beating of a before they leave for Spring Break. the night was over, suspect No. 72 crime suspect by Los Angeles . B~t . about 30other university students would surrender to him. Police earlier this monU1. · .li~ifig far ·Daytona Beach, Fla.. will spend For Monday night's situation, The first hostage incident Stone their Spring Break: with Jesus Christ. involving a hostage incident at a became involved in was a 1981 For the third ·time, ' the InterVarsity northeast Philadelphia motor inn, prison uprising in which prison Christian Fellowship (IVCF) group is "Deputy" Stone, as his wife Louise employees were taken hostage. ,, sponsoring a Florida Evangelism Project calls him, was on the beat. Anned with guns, the prisoners (FLEJ>): . A knife-wielding assailant would only negotiate the release of "h's a one-week trip designed to teach and holding a night clerk hostage told the hostages through Stone. challense students in sharing their faith," said polic.e he would only speak to Stone said he never knows what :.l~ob Bdttingham (BE 91), president of the Stone. may happen. when he goes to a 'JiastCampus Chapter. The neltt thing the veteran hostage situation. ·:, "We're noi out there t.o convert people, r:eporter knew was that he was Before leaving his home only God cin do that," he saw, "but we are negotiating his fifth hostage Monday night, Stone said he ~m · ahare Jesus, the person, and what he's situation. ' tucked in the ascot his wife had Stone, 66, said criminal suspects given him and told her, "If I die at see EVANGELISTS page S may surrender to him because he has written numerous columns see STONE page 4 ~ : THE REVIEW • March 29, 1991 Unemployment rate reaches 7-year high By Julie Creech layoffs in major industries. unemployment rate will eventually stabilize university to recruit is definite ly down from Staff Reporter In addition , re tail stores cut back th e ir at aroun d 6 percent. The national rate should last year. The unemployment rate in Delaware has s taff at the e nd of th e ho lid ay s hoppi ng do th e same, he said . "College hires arc down ," Berilla said. Brooks lectures Delta risen dramatically since January. reaching its season. But, Simon explained, it will take a while "This has been the wors t recruiting year on hazards of hazing highest point in seven years. Jobs in the cons truc tion indus try a lso fo r De laware, a s we ll a s the natio n, to since 1981 ." In February, the unemployme nt ra te became scarce during th e wi nter months. emerge from the recession. Most of the downward tre nd has taken increased a full percentage point, reaching Simon added that temporary shutdowns of " It's going to be tough for graduating place this semester, he said, with recruitment Hazing does not build unity, 7.7 percent. two local auto plants, Chrysler in Newark sen iors because they a rc looking for j obs down 10 percent to 15 percent.