An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper FRIDAY April 25, 1997 Volume 123 • THE • Number 49 N0n-Profit Org. • • . U.S. Postage Paid "' Newark, DE 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Permit No. 26 President Clinton, Colin Powell and Gov. Carper will be keynote speakers this weekend Presidential Summit captures Philadelphia BY ELIZABETH BREALEY Carper was chosen for hi s work as a w hi ch has a lready recruited 5,000 • a child is abused every 13 seconds in • suicide rates for children between will gather Sunday, April 27. th rough Natimwi/Suue New'! Eflitnr mentor. The governor works with mentors . De laware has become a America. w ith al most three million ages 5 and 14 doubled between 1970 Tuesday. April 29. to discus, Gov. Thomas R. Carper will soon school children around Delaware once model s tate for volunteerism. repons of abuse filed each year: and 1988. volunteerism and actively pmticipate be among the likes of Gen . Colin a week. Lippstone said. That is one reason why • one in ni ne African Americans Summit events are based on effons in volunteering events. Powell, President B ill Clinton and One of Carper's main goals this Carper has such a leading role in the between the ages of 12 a nd 15 a re to lower these stati stics and to provide The three-day event is rife with ancy Reagan when the Presi dent's legislative tem1 is to recruit 10,000 summit. victims of violent clime: a healthy strut at binh. a safe place to activities. It wil l be kicked off Sunday Summit for Ame1ica's Future rolls into mentors by 1998 for school-aged Summit organizers, the Corporation • the number of ch il dren living in learn and a responsible role model for by cleaning up a nine-mile stretch of the City of Bro therly Love this children who do not have good role for National Service and the Poi nts of poverty under the age of 6 has America's at-ri sk youth. Germantown A venue. which c utS' weekend. models to look up to. sa id Andy Light Foundations c ited the urgent increased 50 percent; With the exceptio n of Ronald directly through many neighborhoods One of only three govemors chosen Lipps tone. Carper's deputy press need for a voluntee1ism summit based • c igarette a nd marijuana use is Reagan. all of the living presidents - in Philadelphi a. to be a key note speaker at the secretary. on recent alarming evidence revealed increasin g again among high school C linto n. Bush, Ford and Carter- Thro ughout the day. there will be volunteeri m summit in Phil adelphia, Through this mentoring program, in thei r Mission Statement: students: 4,500 delegates and all the govemors see SUMMIT page A& Spare a dime, sir? Federal dept. calls off investigation • The university : now has to AA UP accuses make changes . in its policies university of BY MARK E. JOLLY Editm·ial l:.llitor The university is not in violation of Title IX provisions. according to a U.S. discrimination Department of Education investigation which concluded Wednesday. BY MARK E. JOLLY The inve~tigation team. led by Editorial Editor Brenda Johnson of the Office for Civil David Colton and the executi ve board of the faculty union which Rights in the Education Department, did he represents have once again attacked the university for failing to ask the university to make some li ve up to its promises of equity and d iversity in the workplace. c hanges in its· curren t sexual continuing the emphasis on diversity issues Colton favored last year harrassment policy but c losed the as president of the American Association of University Professors. investigation when the univer si ty In the April issue of the union's newsletter. the aaUP BEAT. the agreed to implement the changes. executive board details a specific case of alleged discrimination "We d id fi nd some things that the against the only two professors assigned solely to th e Women 's un iversity needed to addres,," Johnson Studies depa11ment. Both are women and. according to th e AAUP. said. "We infonned the university. and are paid as half-time faculty for work that would constitllte fu ll-time they agreed [to the changes]." status for other professors. Wednesday marked the end of a five­ Suzanne C herri n declined to comme nt on her situation and and-a-half month federa l investigation Kathleen Turkel did not return repeated phone calls. sparked by a Nov. 4 . 1996. complaint Their treatment. as described by th e AAUP. is indicative of a filed by two university professors that larger diversity shoncoming campus-wide. alleged the university violated Title IX A report for last academic year published by The Commis~ion to of the Education Amendments of 1972. Promote R acial and Cu ltural Diversi ty quantifies minority which prohibits sexual discrimination in representation among university employees, including ;tatistic~ on higher education. women. The following four problems were According to this rep011, 32 percent of the university's faculty are raised by the compl ainants: women, a figure th e AAUP breaks down into assi~tant. associate • the lack of p rocedures for and full professorships. investi gation and resolution of sexual W omen repre ent 44 percent of al l assistant professors, the harassment complaints; lowest ranking faculty role. Female associate profes,ors make up 31 THE REVIEW I John Chabalko • the lack of an assured impartiality percent of their total number, and of the campus's full professor~. 14 Sophomore Lindsay Auten, a resident assistant in Rodney B, planned on in those investigations: percent are women. spending 24 hours as a homeless person this week. She stuck it out for 22 hours • the fact that the policies contained The AAUP interprets these representations to indicate a no possibility of appeal: and and collected almost $500. ''historical legacy of undervaluing female faculty." • the in vestigators had no timeline Colton recognized the improvement in women·s status over requirements. recent years but said he believes this increase should not ' top the John Krampf. the attorney handling campus from remaining c ritica l of the statistics. the investigation for the university. said "There were very few women at the un iver,ity at all for a lo ng the Department of Education asked the time:· Colton said, adding that the representation has increased. MSNBC. CNN. ABC. FOX. NBC. CBS. univer&i ty to work with the Faculty which he said he thought was a notable accomplishment. However. Senate to improve investigat io n he went o n to say, ·'This is obviously sti ll a major problem. The procedures by creat ing timelines in pressure still has to be the re ... M y hope is th at by bringing "three minor a reas of the existi ng attention [to the issue], the administration wi ll be forced to take policy" and by creatin g a n additi onal Sensationalism strikes action. " appeal process. Vice Presi dent for Administration M axine Calm said she felt Professor Linda Gottfredson. co-filer women have done panicularly well at the university. citing the 40 of the Nov. 4 complaint w ith Professor percent of administrators who are female as evidence. Jan Blits. said she was pl eased wi th the " I feel quite confident in teims of the number of facu lty women.'' in national TV news outcome. although s he took issue with characterizing the Education see AAUP page A6 BY RY At"' CORMIER H odding Carter, a Pulitzer Prize as fact wi thout attribution. see TITLE IX page A5 NmionaVSrare Nfit'.'i Editor winning w1iter and former spokesman ''W e started running stories that for the State Department during the said those pic tures we were seeing "l'l'e never gotten over the f eeling Carter administration, said he were true a nd so were their that print journalism is more questions the national television description." Carter said of the legitimate than broadcasting. I military' s videotape of the bombings. Price is right for student wouldn 't want to have to defend that • "They talked about the fantastic kill in front of my broadcasting friends, Third in af(mr-Jwrt rates of these sman weapons. it tumed but .. that 's the way it is" series looking ut ethic\ out to be crap. They talked about the Watch senior kiss Bob Barker, - Walter Cronkite dwing a rece111 incredible ki ll ratio of the patriot speech on his book tour. in the mcdiu missiles, which also was crap. "It all tumed out to be wrong and win a Chevy Monday on CBS A ll types of media have ethical we reported it as though everything BY RYAN CORMIER wheel is heavy and I did ki ss dilemmas to deal with. But with the outlets' coverage of the Gulf War. they said was the way things were." Nmional!Stare News Editor Bob Barker." explosion of live cable new networks He said the television coverage was Carter. spokesman during the Iran ·'Jill Brown. come o n But the venerable 73-year­ and the increasing amount of network extraordinarily lax about saying hostage crisis. also said the images of down' You're the next old host wasn't everything she news coverage, the lines are blurring "according to military officials," and television are not as powerful as some contestant o n ' The Price is thought he would be. In fact, as competition picks up. instead just reponed the!r comments Right! "' he was a little ..