An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY May 5, 2000 • Volume 126 THE • Number 49 Review Non-Profit Org. Online U.S. Postage Paid www. review. udel.edu Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Twice weekly Sources of UD apparel to be disclosed BY JENNA R. PORTNOY Junior R achel McCarthy, of-conduct option that included public, she said. Sruderrr Affairs Ediror president of the Student Labor public disclosure for large and small Kreppel said the university will The administration took a Action Committee, said this is an companies - some of which are now require all of its vendors to significant step Tuesday in important development. contracted by the university. fulfill the terms of the FLA code. investigating whether apparel "This will lead to a greater Unlike large corporations like "If someone is not complying bearing the official university knowledge of if clothing is made in JanSport, Russell and Nike, small with the code or if they are emblem is manufactured in factories with sweatshops companies do not have factories in constantly refusing to live up to sweatshops. conditions," she said. Latin-American countries. Instead code,"' she said, "they won't be a The university signed a Although there is no evidence of manufacturing clothing, they buy [university] licensee." Collegiate Licensing Company code that university apparel is made in blank apparel from companies like Robert Durkee, vice president for of conduct requmng public sweatshops, McCarthy said, it has Fruit of the Loom and Oneida with Public Affairs at Princeton disclosure of factory sites, said been proven that other schools' the intention of imprinting logos - University and the school ' s Barbara Kreppel, associate vice clothing that is made along with the including university logos - on representative to the FLA, said president of Administrative university's is manufactured by them. monitoring is a dual task. Services. sweatshop laborers. Kreppel said the university was Not only must companies The CLC acts as a mediator "There is no proof," she said, reluctant to sign an agreement that monitor their factories in between schools and companies that "but it's definitely happening. did not include separate provisions accordance with FLA guidelines, he produce collegiate apparel, she said. "You can pretty much guarantee for small companies and postponed said, but they must also be It currently represents 180 colleges that some of our apparel comes from signing the disclosure clause until monitored by other accredited and universities. sweatshops." this week. organizations. Kreppel said disclosure of factory Kreppel said the Fair Labor She said full disclosure is By the end of the summer, THE REVIEW/ Mike Louie locations provides monitoring Association, a monitoring agency currently not an issue for many Durkee said, the FLA hopes to be The university has signed a code of conduct that will facilitate agencies with the opportunity to endorsed by the CLC, contacted the companies, however, because engaged in this monitoring. the disclosure of whether university apparel was manufactured examine working conditions. university in December with a code- fa.ctory locations have been made see UNIVERSITY page A9 in sweatshops. AIDS New leaders for declared Faculty Senate BY JANET FRIED move into the position as president a threat Sraff Reporter for the 2000-200 I year. replacing The Faculty Senate - whjch is current President Mark Huddle ton, a responsible for issues including political science professor. to creating majors and curricula - "Dr. Huddle ton wa very helpful U.S. elected its new president-elect and in orienting me to some things to vice president Monday. watch for, " he said. BY AMY CONYER James Richards, a health and Although there are no pres ing Assisranr Fearures Ediror exercise sciences professor, will issues for the Senate to discuss as the The Clinton administration serve as president-elect for the 2000- year winds down, Van Name said, formally declared AIDS a national 2001 academic year. He will then momentum will pick up during the securi.ty threat Monday and become president for the next year. Fall Semester. promised to double fu nding to Entomology and Applied Ecology "I think the important thing for us $254 million to combat the disease professor Charles Mason will be vice to do is to give people a chance to overseas. president for the upcoming year. implement the many ideas that have "In just a few short years, AIDS The position of president-elect is been approved by the Senate this in Africa has wiped out decades of intended to help train the upcoming year," Van Name aid. hard work and steady progress in president, Richards said. The General Education Program is development," stat ed Sandra " I'm very excited about the one of the plan that will get Thurman, Director of the White opportunities that it presents," he underway in the fall. It was just House Office of National AIDS said. "It' s a· little frightening, and it's approved by the Senate after six years Policy, in a press release. a lot of responsibility." of planning. "[AIDS] will soon double infant THE REVIEWI Mike Louie He said he is prepared to organize The program is designed to create mortality, triple child mortality and Bombardment was part of the Greek Week festivities, which also included the quest for the committee, provide guidance and more hands-on learning experiences slash life expectancy by 20 years Greek God and Goddess. facilitate the process of proposing and promote group learning, she said. or more ... with untold economic, new plans. "We have some out tanding social and political consequences," " My goals for nex t year are to students who want to take advantage she said. survive and not screw up." of this new program,"' Van Name Eventually, Thurman said, the Tobeagod or gOddess Richards said he would try to said, "and it will be exciting." global epidemic will make the utilize the technology on campus. It is the wonderful sense of bubonic plague of the Middle Ages "We have access to one of the best community at the univer ity that BY JESSICA R. PACKER "lf you were to be stuck in a room with either pale in comparison. campus Internet systems in the makes programs like it work, he Sraff Reporrer The Backstreet Boys, ' N Sync or 98 Degre-es, The strategies involved in the country, and I' d like to take said. In the third event of Greek Week 2000, who would you choose?" Matz asked Erin Mel­ declaration include direct advantage of that by making as much Mason, the incoming vice approximately 900 students gathered in the Bob Taylor of Alpha Sigma Alpha. She said she'd contributions to AIDS efforts in information as possible available on president. has served on numerous Carpenter Sports Building Monday night for the prefer ' N Sync. other countries, forgiving the debts the Web," he said. Faculty Senate committees in the past Greek God and Goddess competition. Another question asked of senior Alpha Chi of poor nabons if they promise to "Communication is critical, and decade. He could not be reached for The c ompetition consisted of three parts, Omega me mber Michele Kayal, who won the use the money to combat AIDS and there is no excuse for not having it at comment on hi election. including best toga design, a question-and-answer competition, was -a·bout the advantages and working with business and labor this point." "He' ll do a fine job," Huddleston segment and a performance contest th at disadvantages of the Greek system. groups to increase involvement in Richards said his past experiences said. ''He wa a [faculty] enator, and showcased the contestants' individual talents. Kayal replied that one of the drawbacks is that the fight. on the Senate have hel ped prepare he knows the university well.'' A man running on a treadmill overlooking the Dean of Students Timothy F . Brooks giv es "[The decision] is long him for his corning job. He has been The Committee on Committees gymnasium got a bird's-eye view, as the women members of the Greek community "a hard time." overdue," s tated Allen Reese, a senator, a member of the and omination a! o ha new from 11 sororities and men from 13 fraternities Brooks was one of the judges for Saturday' s executive director of AIDS Committee on Welfare and Privileges members - nursing assistant lining up onstage. Looking Fit competition in which contestants Delaware, in an e-mail message. and a chair of the Graduate Studies profe or Bethany Hall-Long and Like something from a Miss America pageant, performed athletic routines. "In the developing world, there Committee. political science and international bright spotlights shone on the competitors as they While many of the questions aske d of the are many countries in which as 'The comfortable side of it is there relations profes or Leslie Gold tein. chose a question from a hat. The questions - women received straightforward answers, the much as 25 percent of the adult are very good people to work with," Kenneth Lomax, biore ource and compiled by junior Dave M atz, exter.nal vice men's question-and-answer segment provoke d population is HIV positive. he said, "and there have been some engineering chairman, will be the president of the Interfraternity, and junior Katie outbursts of laughter from the audience. " This can absolutely lead to nice examples to follow. " next chairman of the committee. Heck, Panhellenic Council prog rammer "If you could eliminate one odor from Earth, destabilizatio n of governments. Richards will replace Judith Van Huddleston aid he thought all the covered a broad range of topics.