Warnin·gs to be Is animal testing Hens win over put on alcoholic · necessary? Rider page 15 beverages page 2 page 11 -ri-lE EVIEWA FOUR-STAR ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Racist reputation ·taints donor's gift By Mark Nardone the nature of the Pioneer Fund - flatly untrue. As a newspaper would say, we have investigator of the research for which the Executive Editor see editorial page 6 contrc~dicts the expressed educational policy a racist, fascist tinge. None of those has a funds were awarded, said Nov. I , "It really of the university," Frawley charged. word of truth in it." amounts to a smear campaign against the The university has accepted a monetary "Among the explicit goals of the Universi ty In his memorandum, Frawley said the Pioneer Fund, based on innuendo, gift from an organization which a professor the fact that the university has received, and of Delaware is the promotion of multi­ Pioneer Fund charter states the group's misinformation and McCarthy-like has charged has a history of racism and he continues to receive, research money from ethnic, multi-racial and multicultural purpose as encouraging "the reproduction implications." has asked the president to investigate the the Pioneer Fund, an organization with a awareness and sensitivity, but the Pioneer of individuals 'descended predominantly In response to Frawley's charges, Trabant maner. long and continuous history of Fund is devoted to precisely the opposite: from the white persons who settled in the has asked Ronald F. Whittington, assistant In a memorandum to President E.A. discriminatory practices. prejudice." original thirteen states ... or from related to the president, to investigate the history of Trabant dated Oct. 31, William J. Frawley, "I bring your attention to this association Harry F. Weyher, director of the Pioneer stocks.'" the Pioneer Fund. professor of linguistics, wrote, "I am between the university and the Pioneer Fund, said, "There have been things Linda S. Gottfredson, associate professor writing to you to express my concern over Fund because such a relationship - given published about us that are abso lutely of educational studies and principal see PIONEER page 9 Defense opens; Sexual Pennell's wife, survey targets friend testify habits By Michael O'Brien Shirley A. Ellis and Michelle A. Staff Reporter Gordon between November 1987 and September 1988. All three Men depicted as Wll..MINGlON - In the trial of women were from the Newark area. violators, women serial-murder suspect Steven B. After 2i days of testimony, 79 Pennell Tuesday, the defendant's witnesses and 250 exhibits, the state victims in assault wife and best friend took the stand rested and the 4efense began its case to provide an alibi for Pennell for Tuesday. By Francine Rosenthal the night victim Catherine A. Pennell's alibi for June 28, 1988, Staff Reporter DiMauro disappeared. centered largely on Cupcake, the Pennell is accused of binding, Pennell family cat A survey which assumed all torturing and murdering DiMauro, Kenneth W. Sanders, who called women are victims and all men are himself "Steve's best friend," said he violaters in sexual assault incidents spent the night drinking daiquiris, was distributed by the university's playing cards and watching a Sex Education Task Force to about pornographic movie with Pennell. 2,000 students during the past two Sanders said he could recall the weeks, a task force member said. specific evening because the cat Karen Bauer, an institutional jumped on his lap and Pennell told research analyst for Institutional him the cat had just returned from Research and Planning and member being spayed. of the task force, said the survey Defense attorney Eugene J. made the assumptions because it Maurer provided documents, could not realistically deal with all including a check signed by Pennell, issues about sexual abuse. proving the cat was spayed and Male and female students picked up that day. received separate forms of the That evening Sanders got into a survey, she added. fight with his wife and left their • Around 48 classes have been home angry. He said he went to a surveyed," Bauer said Nov. 3. "We bar and called the Pennell residence, tried to get a good distribution of and Pennell's stepdaughter told him classes, gender and majors." that her father would be home Bauer said the surveys also shonly. indicate the student's race, but past Sanders then stopped and surveys have shown race has little purchased a six-pack of beer and significance in date rape. drove over to Pennell's house, where Paul A. Ferguson, assistant he spent the night. director of Student Health Services Under cross-examination by and the first male member of the Deputy Attorney General Kathleen Support Group for the Victims of M. Jennings, the court learned Sexual Assault (S.O.S.), said former President Russel C. Jones first File Photo Sanders had been arrested for filing a false police report. Sanders alerted the task force to the issues of The state rested and the acquaintance rape and personal defense began Its case of safety during 1988 in order to help Steven B. Pennell. see TRIAL page 5 evaluate university counseling programs and provide appropriate Judge denies attorney's motions for mistrials services for victims of sexual assault. By Michael O'Brien Supreme Court banned testimony from the who Pennell is accused of murdering. in his testimony. It was decided in a pretrial "The task force decided it was Staff Reporter DNA-testing company which performed the Cellmark stated that the chances were 400 hearing that probabilities would not be difficult to assess services and the billion to one that the blood taken from admissible when describing the DNA nature of the problems until we had I procedures in the Pennell case. WILMINGTON - Lawyers for serial- Cellmark Diagnostics, a division of ICI Pennell's van was not DiMauro's. process in the Pennell case. a real sense as to how significant it murder suspect Steven B. Pennell asked for Americas, Inc., performed the procedure of The Minnesota court said Cellmark did Superior Court Judge RichardS. Gebelein was and how much awareness there and were denied two different mistrial DNA fingerprinting, the fingerprinting of not comply with specific test guidelines, denied Maurer's request stating, "The State was," Ferguson said. motions in the past t.eek. human genes, by matching blood samples making the evidence inadmissible. has failed to demonstrate a degree of Amy Cridland (AS 90), who took Eugene J. Maurer and defense co-counsel taken from the body of Catherine A. Maurer also filed the mistrial motion reliability necessary to admit such statistical part in the survey, said, "I thought it Elizabeth Barnes filed the first motion DiMauro with blood found in Pennell's van. because a prosecution witness inadvertently Friday after receiving word that a Minnesota DiMauro is the second of three victims mentioned the 400 billion to one probability see MISTRIAL page 5 see SURVEY page 8 • 2 • THE REVIEW • November 10, 1989 -· :- ~c~~vice i~.~~ ... ~~.~~ !~198!~~~.i ~~-~.~?.~. ' Staff Reporter Hoffman, a university economics professor. The number of females in the labor force Delaware, Stapleford satd. The national poverty level for a family of has increased so rapidly in Delaware that it Women face many barriers in child care, New plaque honors The average wage in Delaware has been four is $12,600. About J-1 .3 percent of the is now at the level at which the national rate medical insurance, housing and skills. The declining so rapidly for the past nine years Delaware population is at the poveny level, was expected to reach by the year 2000. program trains females and helps &hem find victims of wars that many people are unable to rise above compared to 13.3 percent in the United In 1960, 18.6 percent of married women jobs, said First Step Coordinator Gail the poverty level, a university professor said States. were part of the work force. By 1988, the Womble of the State Department of Health A ceremony in which a Tuesday. The shift to a greater number of low- amount increased to 57.1 percent. and Social Services. commemorative plaque Because of an increase in the labor paying jobs is a major cause of the number Wages will improve during the next 10 "The evidence is very clear that the dedicated to "university students supply, 41,000 people out of Delaware's of working poor, he said. years as Delaware experiences a 30 percent change in family structure causes a change who lost their lives during Asian labor force of 325,000 are classified by About 85 percent of new jobs in Delaware decline in the labor force, Stapleford said. in economic conditions," Stapleford said. wars" will be held Saturday economists as the working poor, said John are in service areas such as fast-food The labor force decline has already been "The poverty rate for married couples is afternoon in Memorial Hall. said Stapleford, professor of economics. preparation, professional cleaning and reversing for two years, according to around 11 percent. The poverty rate for a Robert R. Davis, director for From 1977 to 1985, real wages declined janitorial jobs, along with re,tailing and Stapleford. female-headed household is around 51 University Relations. by 10.5 percent. In 1988 the annual average finance. "It will benefit people with an education," percent." , 1 The names of eight students wage in Delaware was $21,000. Stapleford said service jobs pay 30 he said. "Those who have only a high school Sociology Professor Margaret L. who died fighting in the Vietnam "The portion of our labor force that would percent less than the average worker's pay.