n·usc elections pull big voter turnout, Rogers win By BARBARA ROWLAND percent in 1978, 20 percent two Rogers predicted that the split vice president by over 2,000 votes Almost twice the number ·of years ago and only 15.2 percent results would pose no problem for each. voters as last year turned out last elected last year's DUSC presi­ the officers' working relationship. The University Commuter week to elect Bruce Rogers presi­ dent. "Everyone will get a summer to Association races were also un­ dent of the Delaware The- highly competitive races for cool off and get rid of election contested and next year's presi­ Undergraduate Student Congress the executive positions were animosity," he said. dent and vice-president will be (DUSC). characterized by split ticket voting The winners of the Faculty Terry Lee Nagy and Stephen Whit­ Rogers captured 49 percent, or with president and vice-president Senate student representative posi­ more, respectively. 1,683 votes, thus defeating Mike going to the Open Campus Party tions were al$o from opposite par­ The college council races were Cochran of the Students for and secretary and treasurer to ties. Greg Wilson of Students for significantly more competitive this Students Party who received 42 Students for Students. Students won the two-year term year with 16 of the 28 positions con­ percent, or 1,429 votes. while the Scott Brayman, next year's vice­ and Susan Bennett of the Open tested compared to 25 unopposed remaining nine percent went to president, defeated Dan Katzeff b}· Campus Party won the single-year races last year. Steve Small of the Student Op­ 280 votes or an eight percent post. _ Students for Students swept the portunity Party. margin. Kimberly Yates and The third party or independent executive positions of the College Twenty-seven percent of the stu­ Mary-Beth Buckley were elected candidates in the major races of Arts and Science college council. dent body cast 3,428 ballots on secretary and treasurer, respec­ generally received ·only nine or 10 Next year's officers will be Phil Wednesday and Thursday over­ tively, by an even narrower two to percent of the vote. Reitnour (president), .John coming the steady decline of voter four percent of the vote defeating In unopposed contests for the Hanrahan (vice president), Mary participation in the last several Bob Hewitt and Annmarie Resident Student Association of­ Damiano (secretary) and Mark years. Four years ago in 1977, 33 Pawlowicz of the Open Campus fices, Tracey Lyon was elected Landi (treasurer). percent of the students voted, 25 Party. president and Gregory Beaudoin merican Future Systems unable to find co-plaintiffs By GEORGE MALLET-PREVOST ceptance Corporation, a subsidiary of American Future Systems (AFS). • AFS as defendants. a housewares company based in Bryn The complaint alleges that the Mawr, Pa. that has been seeking a defendants have violated the Equal court review of the university's sales Credit Opportunity Act by and solicitations policy, has apparent­ discriminating against blacks, ly not found any students willing to be hispanics and freshmen in granting co-plaintiffs in the suit, according to credit for the purchase of AFS's pro­ Stuart Sharkey, vice president of stu­ ducts. dent- affairs. The Justice Department has also Last month, -the company's plans charged AFS with discrmination fell through when John Cartier (AS against black job-applicants. 82) and Eric Cline (AS 81) declined to be plaintiffs in AFS's planned suit. According to Sharkey, the negative AFS has been put on the defensive publicity AFS has received as a result since the federal Justice Department of the Justice Department suit has brought suit against the company for lessened the company's chances for alleged discrimination with regard to finding student co-plaintiffs. their credit and hiring policy. "Our policy is a fair one and an Review photo by Debbie Smith According to Walter Gorman, a equitable one," Sharkey said in an in­ THE PRESSURE IS RISING ... Eddie Ferriss (BE83) took advantage of one of the lawyer for the department, the suit terview Thursday. Sharkey added could be heard as early as October. many exhibits at Lifefest '81 Friday to get his blood pressure tested by that the policy was originally the a The suit names AFS, its president, result of student complaints about lifefest volunteer. See-story on page 4. Ed Satell, and the First National Ac- solicitations in dormitories. FOP contact talks stalled again, city offer 'flaltly' refused . have the money available to would depend on a "good By JIM NOLAN Neville said the pollee the county pollee accepted. gi e out those kind of raises., faith effort on the part of the The Newark Fraternal "flatly'.' refused the 9lh p~r- "True," he said, "the county ~urzycki said Tuesday that FOP: ." Order of Police (FOP) and cent f1rst year salary m- accepted the 8 percent and the city's "new offer Federal mediator Bob the city are "far from crease an~ an 8 percent se- 9lh p~rcent, but they_ were presented the lowest of any Weaver was called in Jan. 23 reaching a contract settle- cond ~ear m~rease offered by also g1ve_n several un~sclos- major police unit in the to help settle the negotiations. ment," according to FOP the c1ty. This proposal, she ed benefits that the c1ty has t t , He said he called Monday's president Detective Ronald added was the same ~at the failed to offer_us." . s aA~cording to him, there is a meeting because six weeks watson. New Castle Co~ty Police ac- Watson sa1d the benef1t_s $1S,OOO discrepancy between had elapsed since their last Waton , Sgt. Alex Von ~epted la~t Aprll. , ~ould amount to. an add~- the city's offer and the FOP's meeting and the county police Koch, and the attorney for the Th~y SlJ?PlK wal_ked m, · . tlonal_ 2lh percent. mcrease ~ demand. Neville put the had since accepted their new FOP Michael Purzycki, met Nev1_lle sa1d, and l~~tened to the c1ty offer~d 1t. For t~s figure at$17,500. contracts. with Assistant City Manager nothmg I h~d t? say. rea~~n, he sa1d, the FOP 1S In a press release from the "I figured that since the ·Antoinette Neville, chief Purzyck1 sa1d. that Neville B:skmg for 10 percent for the city manager's office dated county (police) had accepted, negotiator for the city and her never made a f1rm offer. He f1rst year and 10 percent the May 7 Purzycki's claims are maybe it might have some in­ committee last ·Monday to said she "threw some facts second. "This," he said, call~d • • a gross and fluence on Newark." But discuss their contract and figures at us," but never "would keep us at the same deliberate distortion of the Weaver added that he was not di~putes. said if the city ~a~ willing to dis~nce, from the county facts." optimistic that a settlement Newark Police have been back them at ~his t1me. (pollc~). The rele~se closes saying would be reached soon. working without a contract Watson demed that the pro- Neville, though, contended the city hdpes a settlement Neville said that the since Dec. 31, 1980. posal was the same as the one that "the city just doesn't will be reached but that it (Con;inuedto pas••l \ ' \ Page 2 • THE REVIEW • May 12. 1981 rr===============:;-11 Lifelong Academy grows dramatically PRE·MEDS/ Elderly make program happen By BRENDA GREENBERG years old or over; or 55 years in the fall of 1979 and about a PRE·VETS Students over 55 years old old and retired, and their dozen people showed up. Candidates for study lea ding to deg rees in bo th Medica l and Veterinary can now boast of their con­ spouses. "I believe the secret of the Medicine ca n now co mbine: tinuous intellectual growth Centered at Wilcastle, unprecedented success of the • On e yea r (36 cred its) towa rd • Co mpletion ol program towa rd academy lies in the caliber accredited M.S. prog ram Med ica l or Ve terin ary Medicin e degree due to a dozen interested membership has increased at maj or Uni ve rsities. in a Ca ri bbean or Eu ropea n sc hool. elderly men and women who over 150 percent in its one and dedication of the unusual­ started the Academy of year existence. There were ly able and vigorous men and Now acce pting applica tions for July and Nove mber semes ters. Fo r intervi ew · women (ages 55-86) involv­ ca ll: 1203) 66 1-8906. Lifelong Learning. 125 people in last spring's pro­ The academy, sponsored by gram and 'O.ver 300 enrolled ed," Aldrich said. CENTER for the DEVELOPMENT of the university's Continuing this spring. "A steering committee of Education Program, is a Nancy Aldrich, a program men and women was organiz­ INTERNATIONAL POST GRADUATE SfUDIES cooperative teaching and specialist at Continuing ed. They made up by-laws two sound view drive. greenwich. connecticLJt 06830 learning program operated Education, explained there and developed the program," by and for men and women 60 was an interest me~ting held she said. "They didn't wait for it to happen, they made it happen." According to leader of the academy, Louise Connor, there are similiar programs across the country, such as the Institute for Retired Pro­ fessionals sponsored by the New School for Social Research in New York City, which served as a model for the Delaware program. Connor added that she was "pleased to receive a letter stating that the Savannah Academy for Lifelong Learn­ ing in Georgia, modeled their program after us." The members are retired professionals or from posi­ tions of responsibility in their fields (like education, the arts, medicine, industry, and the scie:1ces).