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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Where to go when Women's basketball loses passionate urges strike, to Drexel, 45-72, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Pennit No. 26 FREE Volume 128 Issue 30 www.reriew.udel.edu Tuesday~ February 12. 2002 ~ . Mobley stresses positive college life BY TOM MONAGHAN "The college experience is about more efficient, taking up less time for utmost importance - that is what the Administra/il'l! Nell'S Editor transforming them into men and women members but allowing more input," · university is aU about," Mobley said. For secretary-treasurer Joan Thompson who can go out into the world a nd Mobley said. As a pathologist, she said she mainly Mobley, being a member of the achieve. The graduate program takes this She also said she has been involved in worked in labs in hospitals. When she university's Board of Trustees all comes one step farther." helping to place more of an emphasis on came to the university, this background down to the students. Mobley was elected a member of the women's sports, both in terms of made her naturally gravitate toward the "The main goal of [President] RoseUe board in 1992, and hsa since been active in promoting events and raising funds. nursing department, and she said she has and the Board of Trustees is to make the many aspects of the university from For Mobley, the paramount been involved in a fundraising campaign experience at the university a most fundraising to administrative responsibility of the board is for the department during the past five pleasant one," Mobley said. duties. She has two to make the university more years. " What we want to do is set up a accomplishments of which she accessible for the students. A graduate of Fisk University, Mobley situation where students can learn from is especiaUy proud. She said her duties on the earned her doctorate in medicine from other students as well as from the faculty." As a member of the board mainly involve Howard University in 1970. She said she feels this is important executive committee, she said working with the Mobley said she became a fellow of the because that is how she experienced she was involved in the administration to set policies College of American Pathologists early on coUege, and it helped to mold her into the reorganization of the that are fair and practical. in her career, a move which she feels person she is today. committees associated with "What we reaUy do is work helped her establish connections that have " I think college is an excellent the Board of Trustees. with the president and the aided her in her career. opportunity to expand your horizons and "Essentially, what we did administration to set policies, She currently serves on the board of THE REVIEWffom Monaghan meet new people," Mobley said. 'For the was restructure the but at each step the concerns PNC Bank and is a member on the Board Joan Thompson Mobley worked to increase the most part, this is the ftrst time that these committees to make them of the students is of the of Professional Responsibility of the visibility of women's sports and also to restructure students have left home. Supreme Court of Delaware. the committees composing the Board of Trustees. Proposal Free condom distribution ignites at Olympics sparks dissent BY KELLY HOUSEN Greater Salt Lake Area Red Cross, Staff Reporter said the packs are targeted to abortion More than 250,000 condoms are people visiting downtown Salt being banded out by more than 120 Lake City as part of the volunteers to visitors of the Winter atmosphere of celebrat ion that Olympic games in Salt Lake City, comes along with the Olympics. debates causing certain groups to protest Colonna said the Olympics are a the distribution. unique type of event because of the BY AMY B. MIKELS Many of the condoms are part of celebration that goes along with it. Studelll Affairs Editor free packages given to tourists "A rodeo, for example, might A regulation aimed at increasing called " harm reduction packs," not be the proper forum for prenatal coverage for low-income said Luciano Colonna, the condom distribution . Not that women by providing health care to executive director of the Harm cowboys and cowgirls don't have a fetus is scheduled for proposal Reduction Project. Included are lip sex, but that's not really the same by Health and Human Services balm, handwarmers, lubricant and sort of celebratory atmosphere," he Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. a wallet-sized card with local said. Liz Rose, National Abortion emergency numbers, Colonna said. Dr. Susan Lowry of Student Righ ts Action League The Harm Reduction Project is THE REVIEW/Rob Meletti Health Services, said she agreed communications staff member, the lead agency of 14 local public The Hann Reduction Project with the distribution of condoms to said some pro-choice activists are health groups, including the Red will distribute more than 250,000 visitors, since only the people who concerned because the regulation Cross, he said. The collective condoms at the Winter Games. wanted them would take them. defines "child" as any point organizations' efforts, including However, she said it is better between conception and age 19. the distribution of these packages, already protested the free condoms available in the athletes' village. when condoms are distributed in Rose said the regulation could are called Safe Games 2002. an atmosphere where dialogue have an impact on abortion rights. By giving out free condoms, he She said the organization does not believe that passing o ut about birth control and responsible "This Washington angle to the said, The Harm Reduction Project sex are promoted. health care issue has sugar-coated is trying to promote awareness condoms in the "harm reduction packs" is promoting good public ''I'm not sure that this is the the abortion issue," she said. "No about the spread of HIV, AlDS and venue to hand them out," Lowry one is fooled by this." other sexually transmitted health. "We felt like that is encouraging said. "A sports event is a place, but Campbell Gardett, HHS diseases. not the best place." spokesman, said the purpose of Kim Marshall, the director for sexual promiscuity," Marshall said. "That's a slap in the face to Colonna said the majority of the this rule is to aid children of THE REVIEW/Michele Balfantz Generation Life Philadelphia, an comments about the "harm lower-class pregnant women. organization that works with the citizens of Utah and it's an The infamous houseplant Audrey ll takes the stage in insult to the Olympians." reduc tio n packs" have been "Thompson has made it clear HTAC's 'Little Shop of Horrors,' which opened Friday. See young people to promote positive, and the project has the this is not about abortion," Gardett abstinence and pro-life ideas, said Kait Humphrey, HIV/AIDS story, B4. education senior associate of the said. "This is for a health care branches of the organization have see GROUPS page AS purpose. "The intention of the program is aimed at the child.'' The regulation would apply to the tens of thousands of pregnant women who are not presently Chinese New Year celebration to draw 400 covered by Medicaid, Gardett said. A spokeswoman for the Center BY K. W. EAST "You can't leave China without event provides the opportunity to for Medicare and Medicaid Swff Reporter experiencing the Peking Opera," experience Chinese customs and Services said the State Children's More than 400 people are Zhang said. " It is a nationa l culture and to make new friends." Health Insurance Program began in scheduled to celebrate ·' ian," or treasure.'' Nian is usually celebrated with a 1998 and appropriated $40 billion the Chinese New Year, in the Chinese and other Asian large family dinner in which a to be spent on children's Trabant University Center's cultures follow a lunar, agricultural special Chinese dumpling, jiao zi, healthcare Multipurpose rooms Saturday at 8 calendar. so the new year falls on a is served. This year a traditional within the p.m. different day each year. This year, Chinese snack will be served at the following I 0 The event, sponsored by the it occurs Feb. 12, she said. party. Zhang said. years. See editorial, Chinese Student and Scholar Each year i named after one of Other activities will include a Each state A6 Association, is scheduled to feature 12 different animals. This year's fashion show, in which costumes receives an speeches by Sen. Thomas R . animal is the horse. from different dynasties of over a II o t men t to ---=-=-=-=-=- Carper, D-Del., Newark Mayor Zhang said this will be the first 5,000 years of Chinese history wi ll spend on low-income children, she Harold F. Godwin, State Treasurer year she will celebrate ian away be worn. said. Jack Markell and officials from the from home. A local Chinese church choir is Gardett said there is presently a Chinese embassy in Washington. ·' Nian is the most important scheduled to perform, as well as long-term surplus in SCHIP of D.C. Chinese holiday,'' she said . "The several solo acts. $3.2 billion that states have sent Many traditional performances whole fami ly reunites, has dinner. Ziang said the CSSA sold back to the treasury. will follow. including the Lion celebrates· and has a lot of fun." traditional Chinese food a nd art "States are in the driver's seat Dance and customary Chinese CSSA has sponsored the party and collected donations from many concerning how much of the funds songs.