Buckling up saves student's life Men defeat Army in the field ~0 page9 THE EVIEWA FOUR-STAR ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER TUESDAY Students Driver replenish card plan beaches supports By Allison Graves sobriety Staff Reporter By Alan Grellsamer LEWES - Members of the Wildlife Staff Reporter Conservation Club (WCC) and the Student Environmental Action Coalition planted The Delaware Undergraduate Student beach grass on dunes to prevent erosion. Congress (DUSC) will distribute cards About 300 volunteers planted 100,000 which allow designated drivers to receive units of American beach grass at Lewes, free non-alcoholic drinks at local bars and Fenwick Island and Broadkill beaches restaurants, a DUSC spokeswoman said. Saturday morning. The designated-driver card entitles t.he This is the first year community members bearer to free non-alcoholic drinks when participated in the planting, which lasted accompanying at least two people over 21 from 9 a.m. until noon, said Sheila Colpo, years old who are drinking alcohol, DUSC DNREC volunteer coordinator. President Jeff Thomas (BE 90) said. The planting was a state project coordinated by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control see editorial page 6 [DNREC]. Prisoners used to plant the grass, but they "It was something that DUSC had to frequently tried to finish the job quickly by do," said DUSC secretary Elaina Deming stuffing bunches haphazardly into the (BE 91). "The program, which will begin ground, said Anthony Pratt, director of the after Spring Break, will make people beach preservation section of DNREC. The aware of [the dangers of] drinking and new strategy aims to "involve citizens in Allison Graves driving." (From lett) Brian Gallagher (AS 90), Chris Candela (AS 91), Sue Wolf (AS 91) and Anne-Marie Menzel (AG 90) dig In see BEACHES page 5 Saturday to help stabilize the sand and prevent dune erosion along the Delaware coast. see DRIVERS page 8 Civil rights activist asserts need Speaker's support of revolution for constant fight against racism elicits mixed reaction from crowd By Richard Jones continuously act again st problems By Richard Jones Toure's speech knowing th e and Jennifer Shaffer such as racism, but only react to and Jennifer Shaffer importance of making decisions, Staff Reporters t.hem. People remain active for a Staff Reporters he said. short time, but ignore the. Whittington said that, prior to Permanent organization, subtleties of t.he larger and more Attendants left Kwame Toure's the speech, he read Toure's book, education and persistence are the permanent problem. lecture about student ignorance "Stokely Speaks," and gained only solutions to socio-economic However, "We should fight the and racial consciousness Thursday more insight into Toure's inequality, social activist Kwame enemy every day of our lives wit.h reactions which ranged from accomplishments as Stokely Toure, formerly known as Stokely because t.he enemy is fighting us support of his principles to Carmichael. Carmichael, said Thursday. every day of our lives." uncertainty about his beliefs. Black students' energies are Toure said: "If you're not Ronald F. Whittington, assistant misdirected because they are not working to solve [the problem]. to the president, said Toure see editorial page 6 uniting to free t.heir people from you can't think about [the challenged the audience to educate oppression, Toure told a group of problem]. The only way you can itself. He said Toure echoed the / about 100 people in Smith Hall. think about something is to act on "The challenge that he put to us sentiments of education's "We know that the system is it." was that we need to read," imponance, espoused by such racist," he said, "but we don't get If people do not join political Whittington said. "He challenged famous black leaders as W.E.B. organized until something organizations, for example, they the audience to change t.hings by DuBois, Marcus Garvey and exueme happens." are acting against the organization reading so students can make Malcolm X. Aut.hor and lecturer Toure, 48, judgements." · explained t.hat individuals do not see TOURE page 8 Students should have left see AUDIENCE page 8 Research Solar cell instigates plan may plastics win city debate approval Greenpeace By Robert Weston Staff Reporter disputes claims City officials are close to of degradability approving university plans for construction of a solar-cell By Lisa Ruvolo manufacturing plant on Wyoming Staff Reporter Road, a city official said Friday. Approval of t.he building, to be Greenpeace denounced located near Newark High School biodegradable and degradable and College Square Shopping plastics as a "scam" Wednesday, Center and leased to AstroPower and said evidence does not support Inc., depends on AstroPower's manufacturers' claims that they agreement not to use certain benefit the environment, but hazardous chemicals for research researchers and manufacturers said '}{': , e,rchan~~ed iheir abi~ ~. b&f~~$ :: rot wheelchairs differences.on campus. Religious, racial, and development, said Junie the report is based on outdated 'and crutches-' to e~perie.jlce the trials and sexual and substance-abuse issues were Mayle, city building director. findings. .· iril>ulations of cam pas travel. addressed during the week. .:•. :::.:\ .. ,, The city denied construction Manufacturers claim degradable AYl:nue,.: ,IVBlkin:ll :·llo :. :)}'Non-disabled StUdeilts take [traveling Jeff Thomas (BE 90), president of Deia~are ' plans Sept. 29 after it discovered and biodegradable plastics such as lil>:~y{ eiyettl; · ~ral1dnJftiU'Q1Jgh, the'•alislc~ •: ilt ,.· around campus] foi g.ranted." said Jamie Wolfe Undergraduate Student Congress (DUSC), hazardous chemicals would be six-pack connectors, merchandise (AS •\91 ) •. a disable4'student. ; This program is gained a new perspective from p~cipation in l .i: ~~~~~~:!fJp~p~a~~~~~[r : ~X.S~~: ; ; ~·o e1~~l~ . m.9:~t ·.· used at the proposed site. The bags, trash bags and disposable :: .... .. ·. ; ... 't ( u~t:to raise the(leyelof awar,eness of how · the program. building plans also did not meet diapers disintegrate upon exposure '· ... P~·9P.l• .~. '" pn \ ¢laro.p~:~ / ?; difqc:ult it is for us." .. ·... :<,: ·· .. ········... "It's very interesting," Thomas said. ~I'm the city's Hazardous Production to sunlight or burial and fade ·· \ .·· ·•·· · · · .· ·· · ' · · · ·, :tA !Day in the ·Life: Understanding . getting a perspective, of being. 3 feet. tall ~ cb~Uengo eyery day; Disability" was part of OUtlook '90, sponsored Manufacturing Code requirements. a 9 o~ple ho · u(~ .Frida,Y. 1 I , by several student groups to raise awareness of see DAY IN UFE page 5 see GREENPEACE page 4 see ASTROPOWER page 5 2 • THE REVIEW • March 20, 1990 Student panelists discuss racism Education, exposure and experience are three crucial means needed to help overcome racial problems on campus, according to a student Research on Racism panel. "[Racism] is in our faculty, our staff, our students. It's everywhere. Training is needed for those who are not racially sensitive," Janine Hunt (EO 91), president of the Black Student Union (BSU), said Wednesday in the Perkins Student Center. The panel, coordinated by Dr. Suzanne Cherrin, assistant professor in the Women's Studies Program, focused on the lack of common understanding between black and white students. "People come here with attitudes and values that are not , sensitive to other races, and Leslie D. Barbar9 when they get here, they act on The university's 49-member wind ensemble will tour Luxembourg, France and West Germany to perform five concerts during Spring Break. that and unknowingly act racist," Hunt said. "Stereotypes come about because of a lack of exposure," Susan Platz (AS 91) said. Wind ensemble pipes up for Europe The panelists, both black and white, equally stressed the importance of campus education By Suzanne Conway Roben Streckfuss, associate music professor the American Embassy in Luxembourg. "Luxembourg is smaller than Delaware, in interracial relations. Staff Reporter and ensemble director. The trip is part of an exchange program so it is easy to visit other countries in one "Accept that [the African­ Students will visit Diekirch in northern with members of the Conservatoire de day," he said. American culture is] different, The University Wind Ensemble will travel Luxembourg, where they will tour the Musique in Luxembourg City, Streckfuss "Students will have a good mixture of but not wrong," Felicia Ryder overseas during Spring Break to perform church which gave the city its name , said. both concerts and sightseeing." (BE OM) said. five concerts in Luxembourg, West Germany Streckfuss said. Students will spend a full In October, the university hosted Each student will stay with a Harmony The panel's eight students and France. day in Trier, West Germany, as guests of the conservatoire members who performed at Orchestra member at his or her home for one described their personal The 49-member ensemble will leave mayor, tour the European Parliament in the university and at Washington, D.C., high experiences of racism on tomorrow and return March 30, according to Luxembourg City and attend a reception at schools. see ENSEMBLE page 4 campus to an audience of about 100 students and faculty members. Canyon attracts students Ryder said she was practicing , for a step show in 1984 when two white males roped the door for grand Arizona escape closed and sprayed the room with a fire extinguisher. She said a white fraternity By Debra Kovatch services, nightly campfire programs member threw beer on her black Staff Reporter and archeological exhibits. sorority's pledge class. A visitor's center with an Pacific Ocean Within Arizona's borders lies one extensive museum near the Grand of the world's most awesome Canyon Village is open all year. Sale remembers natural spectacles: the Grand "It's incredible," said Tom Vietnam missing Canyon. Menard (EG 90), who visited the reached 104 degrees when he If sitting around a campfire or The canyon, 217 miles long, was Perry said that although there is a Grand Canyon three years ago.