Del DOT hopes to re-route New skate makes ~ sweep Towson rush-hour traffic around Newark jumping safer @~· · B~Iu_e_H_e_n_s --~] .\ ~.,,.• ;: i u..a e 11 page 2 page 7 .. ·;, ; 's y .) n TUESDAY ABC news reporter to address graduates ~ By Nancy Nonne they preferred and the final selection was Gulf. DUSC, in response to the dismay of many students because of her Middle East Staff Reporter made based on the availability of the top Compton's speaking fee is still being seniors, led a campaign to hire an outside exposure." Ann Compton, an ABC News White choices from the poll. negotiated , Davis said, but it will be within person to deliver the gmduation address. Compton is covering her fourth House correspondent, has been selected to Robert R. Davis, director of University the $7,000 to $10,000 range. DUSC President Mike DiFebbo (BE 91) presidential administration. Her daily replace President David P. Roselle as this Relations, said 388 students participated in Marc Davis (BE 91), vice president of appreciated Roselle's concern for student assignments are to cover President George year's spring commencement speaker, the poll. Delaware Undergraduate Studem Congress opinion. "When we went to Roselle, he really Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. officials said. "This was a greater than average (DUSC) said, "It is much fairer to students to wanted to help us," DiFebbo said. From 1984 until January 1989, Compton After students requested an outside response," he said. "Last year, only 76 ballots have an outside speaker." Roselle said that he does not feel slighted was chief House of Representatives speaker, university officials printed a ballot of were received." The students' displeasure at the choice of by of the change. correspondent for ABC News. nationally prominent speakers in the March Davis said Compton will be a good Roselle for speaker was not disrespect, Marc "Compton is a good and experienced She was the first woman to be named a 19 issue of The Review. speaker because she can discuss things she Davis said. "Commencement is a student speaker," he said. full -time White House correspondent by a Gmduating seniors voted for the speakers experienced while reporting from the Persian ceremony." "Today her name is more familiar to network news organization. Spring heats up local crime rates By Jennifer Beck last year. The most recent tally of Staff Reporter reports for fiscal 1991 already totals The university crime rate has 534. increased this year, police said, and Normally there is a small increase is expected to continue to rise with in the total number of crimes every Spring's arrival. year, Flatley said. With more people outsi de for Reports of part two offenses. more time because of the warm which include assaults, alcohol weather, Lt. Alexander Von Koch of violations and disorderly conduct, Newark Police said he expects to see have also increased. more assaults, disorderly conduct Larceny comprises the majority and alcohol and noise violations. of part one offense statistics, This increase in crime means according to the university's more bicycle thefts, criminal February crime report. mischief and assaults, said Bicycle thefts are common on Univ ersi ty Police Capt. James campus, Flately said. In an attempt Flatley. to combat the problem of stolen "There is a tendency for things to bikes, University Police have happen wh en there is more developed a bicycle registration interaction betw een students ," system this spring. Flately said this Flatley said program is expected to help alleviate In ad dition to the expected such crimes. increase, campus crime as a whole Reports of thefts from vehicles has gone up slightly thi s year, he almost doubled this year, with an said. More crimes classi fied as part increase from 27 incidents in 1990 one offeQses, including homicide, to 50 in 1991. leslie D. Barbaro rape, robbery, arson and theft, were The North Blue Lot on Laird reported this year. Campus is a recurring problem, BLOWING AWAY THE GREEKS? Vandals express their displeasure at a proposal by Faculty Sena tor Edward Schweizer on a By February, police logged 104 water tower near the Chrysler plant on Route 696. The proposal requires Greek houses to have monitors. more incidents than th e same time see CRIMEpage 4 UD to renovate Rodney Dining Hall By Shara Mervis The first phase will include moving the dishwashing room to representative to Dini ng Services, Staff Reporter installing a pizza bar, an ice cream the second level and constructing a said phase one of the renovations is More than $1 million in bar and a deli bar, Collins said. It ground elevator for handi capped sc hedul ed to be completed by the renovations to Rodney Dining will begin in June and end in access, said Stewart. fall so that th e dining hall will be Hall, aimed at further automating August Th e new dishwashing system to opened fo r the school year. the dishwashing system and She said a "scramble system" of be installed in th e dining hall 's Kirsc h said phase two of the Director stresses •exhibits is dilt~ul~ M~ji· :i=!; improving the food service system, food stations similar to Russell upper level will allow stud ents to pl an wi ll take place during the officials are scheduled for this summer. Dining Hall - where students discard their tras h before sum mer of 1992 and include ttl'Bitlonal values : sai~Public ~~ :: ~~t~~ i:::: .. The $1.3 million project will be have a variety of serving lines to discarding their trays, Stewart said. alterin g th e lig hting and conducted in two phases during choose from - will be installed. The system will lower maintenance furni shings a nd adding ·b~er rfi$ss appeal ie~;~;r~E '~ consecutive summers, said Jeaneue "We took what we liked and costs and eliminate so me jobs in adm ini strative offices. ·\Var," said, ·· Collins, associate director of what we think the students liked the dishwashing process, Stewart Co llins sa id th e changes to By . Sta~e/tb~ert diseasea~d he .• Staff~rte( because legishttors cutting opemtions for Dining Services. from Russell and moved it to said . Ro dney arc the third an d fi nal are .. ·· M~seufus, ·. with directors museWT1s;futiding: . · · · The money for the renovations Rodney," said WilJiam G. Stewart, Stewart said those who work at swge in th e uni versity's di ning hall is not affected by the university's coordinator of facilities current dish washing jobs would be renovation plan, followi ng The ·. w····.h.. ·:.·. Q. :•~re ','pr. ~su. 'tutes to mass Ario"ftief problim with · ·. ·' · '· . li · ' h · k,da.·y···.. '.'.''.'.in.''.'.·=.·.ts.'. e.um. s.··· .Macdoria.l.d.• :.·.·:..:.•.< current budget crisis because renovations and equipment for transferred to the servi ng lines. Scrounge and Russell Dining Hall. 0 ~s.•. s... consider die ·=: Dining Services operates from a Dining Services. Tri cia Kirsch (AS 93) , Resident •,: ffJJU~J~ ;~ ,:~iiue~ ~n 'd~ '' ::: said, = if'tJi~fthey separate fund. Phase one will also include Student Assoc iation (RSA) see RODNEY page 4 ; ta:= ~~.·o· t .n·.··.'m·.k···.::.g; .l.. to. n.t~ .·.: ; tn,:'~usehe.nulm e di~. ·.· recar···kto'~r· · upket~ : ()t art :aii :d historical : """' ru " . cOllections more importanftfuin wti·(F'''spqke Saturday . ii't ,a t.fie ·audientes they serve; :.. <:P="i conte!inct·inClayton Hall, He said because of .di'is i:):: Stone rolls to Chapel Hill "A- friuseum 's primary milseunis limit coJiections even ·:::: mi~iori ' ii '' fh · serve society and tliBU.gh · their aud ie ri~e 'is ::;•, reSp<>ndW ! ~iying the goodS curti.uan.Y diverse. · ..= -: English professor takes new teaching job in North Carolina an~ · }s:f]"ii::es wh ich a 'MaCdonald said the solution ') By Mark Nardone American school of journalism. "It same "intellec tual stimulation" he d~mocratJs S()ciety demands," · •tO" : muk~utns · problems lie· ·· Contributing Editor was just an extraordinary felt when he came to the university s~i(h,t,QWriR. Macdonald, •witllih 'his ·: ronnula- "people··=" The university is losing one of its opportunity," he says. in fall 1983 as a di stinguished best. Stone will be sorely missed by his visiting professor. Chuck Stone, who has earned students and colleagues. He is also dismayed by th e .•. ..•...',•..·k t.• .:.. .•.. most of Delaware's major teaching "It leaves a void," says English university's fiscal woes, he says, and ~i!i~5::~m ,:::: ~..·.... P·: =~· '.~·.~··:• :o=·'···.~~.t, r.ha.•. ·.·..~'...:• ~·.···~ · ;··· ;an··o:·~yg· '· :o:f;M::acd::on,~mmaln~d:'ss:.:,.:''.: ... distinctions, will become the next Professor Dennis Jackson. "You only disturbed that campus race relations ~~~;~~~~t·~~u~sh:~:e ~~ auua~ Mus ·euirt$~~, featured several but from her · Walter Spearman Professor of meet three or four people like him in are deteriorating. ·col\cefnt spWet~ !~ ;is. (me of the ooly ' pe~ii~ as a member of the . Journalism at the University of your lifetime- if you're lucky." His decision to leave was , "It's really upsetting," says however, "emotionally wrenching." student~Riii 'tniiS~ufu studies · .Nafi'o#.•t= Endowment for the North Carolina at Chapel HilJ on Chuck Stone "After being somewhere 19 years conferenciHnth6<iountry :Huhjariities (NEH), which Aug. 1. This is the last semester of Richard Jones (AS 92), who last .. .thi s semester his last in Delaware Stone's eight-year sojourn as the year became the first black news of your life," Stone says, "you Delaware journalism program editor of The Review since June almost re-invent the umbilical cord." politicians in New York, ~r~?t.'.t. ~.:~.~.!.·. '.~.r .· .i. b.~.·.• ~ .:~.:.;.,...=. :.i.: ·.•.~f'.P~ci . ~jii-1 ·...,lbidons.