Vol. 103, No. 50 University of Delaware, Newark .. DE Tuesday, April22, 1980 University admissions recruiting freshmen By DAN HELD The university's admissions department is joining other schools around the country in an all-out recruiting cam­ paign for freshman applicants. The intensified search is due to an expected drop of over 30 percent in the number of high school graduates by the year 1986, according to Douglas Mc­ Conkey, dean of admissions. The drop in the number of high school graduates is a result of the nationwide decline in the number of persons in their late teens and early twenties - the delayed effect of the post-1945 "baby boom" era. The predicted 30 percent decrease in high school • graduates represents the gradual decline from 9,831 Delawarean high school graduates in 1972 to a projected 6,752 graduates for 1986, according to projections made in January by Dr. Carol Pemberton, principal researcher of institutional research and financial planning. Keeping the number of in-state students constant while the number of high school seniors decreases, is now the ad­ missions department's chief concern, according to Mc­ Conkey. Despite declining high school enrollments, the Board of Trustees, which sets the university's broad policies, man­ dates the admissions department to keep two figures stable. One is the approximate undergraduate enrollment of 12,000 to 13,000 students. The second is that more than half of these undergraduates should be Delaware residents. To maintain the enrollment and the in-state figures, the admissions department is trying to recruit a larger propor­ tion of Delaware high school graduates to the university, McConkey said. Review photo by Terry Bialas "18 percent of Delaware's high school graduates go to the BRIGHT SUNSHINE and warm temperatures provided an ideal setting for "Israeli Day" university. 10 years ago it was 24 percent. If we can raise it festivities held Friday in front of the Student Center by the Friends of Israel. The group back to 24 percent through an increase of one percent each sang, danced and offered "fafela" bread to passersby in celebration of the 32nd an­ year from 198(t to 1986, then we will be on target," stated niversary of Israeli independence. McConkey. To raise the percentage of Delawareans who enroll, and to improve the situation in general, the admissions depart­ ment is conducting recruiting programs in state high schools. According to McConkey, a member of the admis­ City -officials oppose waste plant sions staff was assigned to each Delaware high school three or four years ago. expressed fear that a spill or leak in the "I believe we've only begun communicating effectively By SUE FORMICHELLA plant's pipes could seep into the ground and the last three or four years," said McConkey. "For seven or A proposal to open a waste treatment plant enter the water well field. eight years the proportion of Delawareans who applied was across from Castle Mall was discussed by At the five-hour public hearing, City going down because more of them were receiving out-of­ representatives of the plant's operator and Manager Peter Marshall told the audience of state opportunities than .in previous years. For next fall we Newark officials at a public hearing Wednes­ about 50 people that he was "concerned and seem to be getting a higher percentage of applicants from day in Clayton Hall. upset" that a permit may be issued. Delaware, so it seems the pendulum is beginning to swing The plant's proposed site, in a vacated "If our water is polluted, it would be a the other way.'' building in Delaware Industrial Park, is disaster. Water cannot be replaced, and we The number of out-of-state applicants is not expected to directly over the aquafer that supplies two­ have no other water sources to turn to," he decrease even though other states expect similar drops in thirds of the water for Newark, including the said. the number of high school graduates. This is partly a result university, according to Joe Dombrowski, In defending the proposal, representatives of a high exportation rate in neighboring states, par­ Newark water department engineer. of the Waste Conversion company said that in ticularly New Jersey. Beca~e of the plant's location, residents (Continued to-2) (Continued to-2) on.the How to judge tenure criteria? Nobody is sure inside By KEN MAMMARELLA or teaching, be above • As shown earlier, in addi­ ty views are needed to create Editor's note: Although in­ average in the other and also tion to the crucial right of a worthwhile marketplace of tended primarily as a serve the community in some academic freedom, tenure ideas - but to people who Stalking the safeguard of academic way. drags with it an increasingly d~serve it for above average freedom, tenure has taken on Then, generally after six significant economic commit- service to the goals of the in­ perfect tan more significance for univer­ years of continual evaluation, stitution. sity faculty members. This tenure is awarded - or it is Tanning salons attract in· • Measurements of the article, the last in a series of not. The former grants of analysis necessary· achievements may door sun worshippers .. 11 four, analyses the problems _,cademic freedom and be invalid and may need in evaluating the major almost lifetime job security; ment and the risk of more than the six years of criteritJ - research, teaching the latter is a kick back into psychological harm and per­ university activities to be ac­ Ahot streak and service - used in gran­ the competition· of today's formance skewed to the curate. tight academic job market. demands of the process. Blue hen baseball team ting tenure. The major defense for It seems straightforward. Unfortunately three pro­ • Tenure is not granted to tenure is academic freedom: wins 15th in a row .. ... 24 All a professor has to do to get blems exist with this people who need it - those nearly invincible job security tenure is to excel in research scenario: whose controversial, minori- (Continued to page 3) Page 2 • THE REVIEW • Aprll22, 1980 CONFUSED ... waste treatment plant about course selections? (Contlftued'""" ,_ 1) remove 90 percent to 100 percent of the intake the two years they have been operating a emissions, said Mark Alsentzer of Waste Con­ similar plant in Hatfield, Pa., they have never version. had a spillage problem. In testifying, most city officials addressed WORRIED The following steps taken in treating the the problem of leakage to the city's main wastes were also outlined by company wells. about grading procedures? representatives: Sampling and analyzing the waste to be "It's like a magnet pulling a problem into an treated. area where one never existed before," said' Rechecking the waste delivered to the plant Dombrowski, who called the situation "poten- ANGRY by tank truck. tially disastrous." . about unscheduled exams? Refusing any untreatable material. He also stated the possibility that a .spill Having the discharge monitored every hour could penetrate the ground tbrough rain, by company technicians and having the ef­ enter the six wells surrounding the plant and CALL 738-2640 fluent tested quarterly by the county. contaminate the entire aquafer field. The plant would not handle pesticides, "We do not oppose a facility such as the A.pri121-May 1 3-5pm radioactives, solvents, concentrated organics, waste treatment plant," Marshall said, "but oils explosives or carcinogenics, said Harry we do oppose its location in the middle of an Alsentzer of Mackel Inc., consultant for Waste aquafer." Conversion:- Arguments presented at the hearing will be ASK the ACADEMIC AFFAIRS To control air emissions, the company reviewed by a state hearing officer who will COMMITTEE would use an air scrubber which would make a decision on the proposal in 30 days . for .. recruiting freshmen HELP and ASSISTANCE with your (Continued from page 1) natives are: lowering the in­ "One alternative is to low­ If this approach is not suc­ state admission standards, er the in-state admission academic problems. cessful enough in raising the changing the "resident­ standards enough to get the proportion of Delawareans nonresident" ratio, and rais­ · number of students needed to who enroll, then more ing the in-state admission re­ reach the one percent per measures to recruit students quirements on the theory that year target. We would admit would be added. What these it would make the school them only if we felt they could SomewhereWest of Laredo measures would be is not more attractive and thereby handle the work," said Mc­ known, only that they would increase the number of Conkey. "We have a very be decided on through future Delawareans who enroll. good idea," he added, "of research. McConkey said McConkey said he does not what it takes to handle the some of the possible alter- know which alternative would work here and we would not be chosen or the chances of admit students who would be any of them being used. The doomed to failure." Read final decision would be left to 88 percent of the a number of people, including Delawareans who applieti ill the Board of Trustees, the the fall of 1979 were accepted, The Review provost, the president and according to McConkey's an­ himself. nual report. Pemperton said "The course of action would the university will have to ad­ Classifieds be the alternative that would mit about 95 percent of all in­ least effect the composition of state applicants under the the student body. projected increase plan. CURRENT RECIPIENTS OF ''NEED BASED'' FINANCIAL AID Somewhere west of Laredo there's a OfOinco-oustlna .