Faculty Sena E Votes Against Divestment

Faculty Sena E Votes Against Divestment

Spotlight shines rra Use of gold lot during JFreddie folds on freshman athlete night nets <;omplaints for last time page 15 page4 page 11 ~~ FREE FRIDAY Faculty Sena e votes against divestment By Kent Schoch Wunyabari Maloba said the university divest, but the administration didn' t do it," of Educational Studies, asked members of Staff Reporter could take a strong stance against said Faculty Senator Edward Schweizer, the commiuee if the university would stilt 27-18 vote ends The Faculty Senate voted against the apartheid by divesting. referring to a recommendation to di'vest accept research grants and scholarships university divesting its holdings · in "Life is made up of symbolism," he approved by one vote that year. from the same companies it would divest companies with business in South Africa said. "Divestment would signify our "To vote again is an act of futility," he from. six-year debate Monday, ending a battle which ignited disapproval of apartheid. It is what we can said. "Divestment now would look like an Grubb spoke of economic boycotts of faculty and students for six years. do as an institution." after-thought." environmentally dangerous corporations as The measure was voted down 27-18 Gr\.lbb argued that a university 's The measure came to the senate floor 18 an example of how to influence policy over university's after a 25-minute debate at the monthly symbolic statement should be to educate months after a four-person committee changes. meeting. people, and the university does not have formed to study the university "It is not a matter of selling assets of Farley Grubb, an economics professor enough economic pull to inf,luence the community's views on apartheid. companies that are not environmentally South African who wrote an 1 8-page report opposing South Africa government. The committee presented its report in sound," he said. "It's a matter of not divestment, made an early motion that the "The university's power lies in March, recommending that the university buying the product. That puts immediate issue be tabled indefinitely. That motion, education," he said. "We don ' t have divest after holding open hearings and pressure on the company to change." financial holdings however, was almost unanimously voted enough economic might. The United States solicitating opinions from faculty, students However, Educational Studies Professor down. government does, but we don't." and administration. Ludwig Mosberg said American During the debate, history Professor "The senate sent a message in 1985 to During· the debate, Jan Blits, professor see DIVESTMENT page 3 Medical technology program may be cut Department to submit counter proposal By Vincent A. DeMuro Jr. Ciulla said about preserving the Staff Reporter program, "I am willing to do The university's Medical everything to encourage the Technology program, the only one university in working with the in the state, may be eliminated Administration, the Dean's Office because of the ongoing budget and the Provost's Office." crisis, officials said. R. Byron Pipes, chairman of the The budget council proposed in budget council, said the council is August to cut the program, which awaiting a report from the Faculty has been part of School of Life and Senate before he makes his final Schweizer's proposal above Health Sciences since 1949. recommendation to the president. drew sighs from fellow "I am very concerned about Medical technology students faculty senators. The fulfilling an obligation to [our train to work in hospitals, private handwritten statement Is the students]," said Professor Anna laboratories and private industry, Ciulla, director of the program. concentrating on clinical senator's most recent If the program is cut, all non­ chemistry, microbiology, student-life related motion tenured faculty and graduate hematology and blood banking, on the senate floor. employees in the department will Ciulla said. also lose their jobs, she said. see PROGRAM page 3 No charges sought Students decry Faculty Senate proposal housing units." Professor urges university to In the spring, Schweizer made a proposal New measure latest in Kells Avenue rape tell parents about lack of to the Faculty Senate which resulted in the in string of anti-Greek installation of house monitors in three Greek The investigation into an into bushes and inserted an object supervision in Greek houses houses on a trial basis because of cases of motions by Schweizer alleged gang rape of a female into her vagina. sexual assault and alcohol abuses in the Delaware law defines rape as student off Kells Avenue Sep.t. 7 By Laura Fasbach . houses. By Paul Kane may be obsolete because of lack any unlawful penatration with a Copy Editor Schweizer said last year's proposal is Administrative News Editor of evidence, said Newark Police foreign object. Professor Edward Schweizer urged the irrelevant to his new one. The words "I hate to bring this up again" Chief William A. Hogan. Police are still investigating university to tell the parents of those who "This proposal is for ttie parents, not for were barely out of Edward Schweizer's Speaking at the Town and the case, Hogan said. live in Greek houses that there is no official the students," he said. mouth when every Faculty Senators' eyes Gown meeLing Monday, Hogan "As time goes ·on, verification supervision in those residences. Under the terms of Schweizer's proposal said, "The case will go nowhere of the facts and evidence are hard Some consider the proposal, which was which was ratified in the spring, three of the • News analysis because we don't know what if not impossible to obtain," he made at Monday's Faculty Senate meeting, a university's 15 Greek houses- occupied by really happened." said. part of the chemistry professor's continuing Alpha Epsilon Pi, Phi Kappa Tau and Kappa rolled in unison. He cited the victim's lack of Hogan said based on the effort to heighten tensions between university Alpha - were required to hire house Every face present in 1 10 Memorial Hall at cooperation with police as a information gathered so far, "We officials and Greek organizations, however monitors. the monthly Faculty Senate meeting seemed primary reason they have no can't say with virtual certainty Schweizer strongly denies those charges. However, the monitors at those houses and to express the same thing: "Not again." suspects or leads. that it happened or not." The proposal reads: " ... all of the parents of the other Greek houses on campus are not Almost 18 months to the day after his first The victim, a 17-year old "We can't verify certain students who are members of live-in social affiliated with the university Office of proposal to radically change Greek life on this freshman, told police she was aspects." organizations be advised, in writing, that the Housing and Residence Life. campus, Faculty Senator Schweizer was at the assaulted by four or five white Anyone with information about university does not have Residence Life staff Schweizer said he designed new proposal podium making another controversial males as she walked alone on the case is encouraged to call members residing in social organizations· see PROPOSAL page 5 see ANALYSIS page 5 Kells Avenue at 12:30 a.m. She Newark Police at 366-7100 said the assailants dragged her - Larry Dignan Once the Parking violations up in '91 By Sara Weiss Copy Editor Parking garage not in university's teacher, Newark drivers must pay for about 250 more parking tickets so far this ye.ar, largely because of last immediate plans due to high cost Tuesday's implementation of In­ By Robb Enright Monday, City Manager Carl Luft now the Senior Slillf Reporter Vehicle Parking Regulators (IPRs), asked if the university could afford police said. University officials said .they will to build a garage, offering to ask the During the first four days of IPR continue improving on-campus state for help securing funds. subject enforcement, 380 violations were parking, but plans for building a Dean of Students Timothy issued along the 54 regulated garage have been postponed for at Brooks told the Town and Gown streets surrounding campus, said least a fe w years, an official said. committee that a parking garage S. African educator Newark Police Chief William A. Director of Public Safety would not be feasible right now studies American Hogan. Douglas F. Tuule said, ''right now, because of excessive costs. Forty more were issued on we don 't see any reason to justify "The university has talked about teaching methods Monday, he said, equalling $10,500 building a parking garage." the possibility of building a garage worth of potential fines . No The decision comes at a time for years," Brooks said. By julie Carrick enforcement was implemented over when parking throughout Newark Vice President for Government Senior News Editor the weekend, he said. has grown into an intense issue for Relations, John T. Brook, said he Three snapshots of a grinning Hogan said over a six-day span students, residents and university. doubts the state could possibly two-year-old taped to the stark last year, 693 city-wide tickets were officials. afford to assist the university due to cinder block walls of a Pencader issued this time last year. This year, At the Town and Gown meeting see GARACE page 4 single remind Ivy Mako Tanyane of from Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, 935 tickets her family and home in South have been distributed . Africa. South African teacher Ivy Mako Tanyane, at her Pencader room, To date, no one has bought the ~-----INDEX------~-----------------. Along with her son Tebogo, 400 finds adjusting to an urban lifestyle challenging. $112.50 IPR, commonly known as Opinion ..

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