Arbitrator Hears Pioneer Fund Testimony
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Baseball tops Hofstra Appliances overload Fair revives in doubleheader .fZ;d dorms' electrical capacity medieval life page19 ~ a e 15 TUESDAY Arbitrator hears Pioneer Fund testimony By Richard jones Adminisrrarive News Ediror Hearings began Thursday to determine the legality of a university ban that prohibits faculty from receiving grants from the Pioneer Fund, an organization some believe supports racist research. A federal arbitrator met with lawyers for the university, led by Vice President for Employee Realtions Maxine R. Colm, and pro bono attorneys for two professors who have challenged the ban. Linda S. Gottfredson and Jan Blits, both of the educational Maxine R. Colm studies department, co-sponsored ... leader of university legal team the grievance against the university through the local chapter of the GQn.fredson said she though the American Association of Univer hearing went well. sity Professors (AAUP) on Sept. Blits agreed with Goufredson's 17, 1990. assessment and said that a date for The seven-hour hearing was the the second hearing had not yet been first in a series designed to set. detennine the validity of the charge Gottfredson said she would not that banning the acceptance of be surprised if additional hearings Pioneer Fund money violates for the case would be extended into academic freedom. the fall. The meeting was closed to tl)e He called the dec ision to ban public. But according to a source Fund money "a classic case of close to the case, Blits, Goufredson theviolation of academic freedom." and AAUP Grievance Officer "You can't withhold someone's Gerorge Cicala testified Thursday academic privileges because of a although the content of their political viewpoint," he said. testimony could not be disclosed. Fonner university President E. A. The source also said Lawrence Trabant decided April 30, 1990 that Nees, chairman of the Faculty the university should not accept or Senate committee that recom solicit any money from the Pioneer mended the ban, testified at the Fund. hearing. The decision followed a Faculty Colm, leader of the university's Senate investigation that found the arbitration team, declined to Pioneer Fund supported research Leslie D. Barbaro comment on the meeting or the that conflicted with the university 's FLIPPIN' OUT Jenny Blischok (HR 94) performs a toe-touch basket toss and Chuck Nelson (AS 92) practices a back tuck during Pioneer Fund in the interest of mission to increase diversity. cheerleading tryouts Friday evening • Tryouts were held from Wednesday to Friday for next year's squad. confidentiality. Gottfredon has said her research Both Nees and Cicala declined to comment. see PIONEER page 5 ·. Streets RSA lists dining demands Controversy over food contractor prompts letter to Roselle reveal By jennifer Stack also urge the university not to cut One demand states the university Sralf Reporrer student jobs at dining facilities. should control any rate changes the Nevvark Concerns that the university may "We want to make the president contractor wants to make, said hire an outside dining contractor has aware that students are concerned Jennifer Griesbach (AS 93), also an prompted the Resident Student and have demands," said Tricia RSA representative to Dining history · Association (RSA) to outline a list Kirsch (AS 93), RSA representative Services. of demands about maintaining the to Dining Services. "We don't want "Costs are the single most quality and costs of meals at the him to make a decision without our important concerns," Risser said. Names of road~ university. needs in mind. "We want better dining services at commemorate RSA members do not officially "The proposal demands certain the same costs." support or oppose having a things from dining services," she RSA members are also concerned people, places contractor, but are more concerned said, "whether it is the current that an outside contractor will use with continuing quality food service Dining Services or someone we lower quality food to save money, By Laura Lallone at the university, said RSA President contract out to." Griesbach said. Staff Reporter Randy Risser (AG 91). Although Roselle was out of The students have also requested History lingers in the most The demands, sent in a letter to town, his office received the list of that no changes be made in the curious places. President David P. Roselle Monday, demand Monday, a secretary said. see RSA page 5 Found not only in dusty records of libraries and archives, tidbits of Newark's history also hide on every Vandals strike local churches street comer. Pamela Wray -DeStefano Unknowingly, students By Gretchen Wanl Choate Street is named for the Choate Hotel, which stood Sraff Reporrer touch a link of the city's 230- on the present site of Klondike Kate's. · year history every day when A rash of local church they read its street signs. vandalism is leading Newark Newark street names began uncover the or1g1ns and lived. Police to believe the same person as being "utilitarian," said possibly compile them into a The road names have been or .people may be responsible for James Owen, a member of the book for the historical society's simplified since ;olonial times, the incidents, police said. Newark Historical Society. library. Owen said, and some labels Damage to each of four local When the town received its John A. Munroe, former now refer to fonner landmarks. churches ranges from between charter in · 1760, the road university professor and author Few students realize an $100 and $700, according to Lt. names referred to either the of several books on Delaware apple orchard once stood on Alexan<:ler Von Koch of Newark owners of the surrounding history, said he has never the land which now is Police. land, Owen said, or described touched upon any street name recognized as Apple and Vincent Kowal, public the road's destination. origins in his research of Orchard roads. information officer for New . Pamela Wray DeStefano South College Avenue and Newark. And the historic Choate Castle County Police, said they The O.uch of the Nuarene on hper Mill Road was vandalized. New London Road, for "I live on Cheltenham Hotel once stood where are also investigating two example, was once the Road," he said, "and I don't Klondike Kate's is now on additional church incidents which lost a total of about $600 in cash pathway called the "Great even know why it's named · Main Street. The street behind occurred outside Newark's and candy bars, Newark Police jurisdiction. Road from Kent County to that." the building adopted the name said. Lancaster," said Owen, who But Cheltenham Road is one Choate Street, carrying on the Kowal said although New Offices were ransacked and has studied the city's history or the streets about which history. Castle County Police are not $200 damage was done to for 30 years. Owen has a theory. He said he Kells Avenue bears the cenain how many people may be windows and interior doors at the Although many of the name believes it is named for the name of the Press of Kells, a involved in the series of crimes, Church of the Nazarene on Paper origins are recognizable, some Philadelphia suburb where printing business that dates they do have a suspect for all four Mill Road between March 2.5 and remain mysteries, said Owen, former Newark College incidents they are investigating. 26, Newark Police said. The United Methodist Church Pastor of the Church of the coordinator of a project to President Rathmell Wilson see STREETS P88e 5 on East Main Street, burglarized twice in two days in late March, see CHURCHES pi18e S • 2 • THE REVIEW • Apr il 23, 1991 Late night Wante.d: Chaucer riot stops Area law schools English Professor's valued library discuss admissions accidentally sold by honor society Papermi/1 By Clare Lyons Amsler said he contacted the Six representatives from Staff Reporter fraternity and the English bus loop various local law sc hools An English professor's private department Friday to inform described the application process book collection was accidentally them of the mix-up, and by the and their individual adm issions sold Wednesday when the texts end of the day he said lO books Students stranded criteria to about 50 students in were mistakenly included in an had been returned. Kirkbride Lecture Hall last week. honor fraternity book sale. Sigma Tau Della and the after waiting crowd The University of Maryland , English Professor Mark English department will reim University of Maryland Amsler said he is missing a burse anyone who returns the threatens driver Baltimore County, Villanova, number of research and books, Consiglio said. By Stacy Colllins Widener and Temple Universities instructional books, but is not Amsler, who has no permanent Staff Reporter and Dickinson School of Law sure of exactly how many books office because of reorganization A confrontation between a ;., were represented at the law panel, are missing or their total value. within the English department, university bus driver and about 30 :~ which was sponsored by the Pre At least five boxes of books, had been storing the books in the rowdy students escalated into a : Law Student Association. which Amsler has been collecting same vault the fraternity uses to riot at Paper Mill Apartments I :·: All panel members agreed since he was an undergraduate, accumulate books for its sale. a.m. Sunday morning, Newark :·: grade point average and scores on were removed from storage in a Stains on the Chaucer books police said. ' the Law School Admissions Test Memorial Hall basement vault from a flood in Amsler's The riot caused Public Safety to :., (LSAT) are the most important and sold in front of the building.