An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner TUESDAY February 15, 2000 • Volume 126 THE · Number 30 Review Online on-Profit Org. w ww. review. udel.edu U.S. Po tage Paid ewark. DE ,. Permit No. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE MBNA to give university $25 million BY STEPHANIE DENIS AND wh ich is a t ime when we celebrate "We consider thi s support to be our comprehensive fund-raiser designed ERIC J.S. TOWNSEND personal frie nds hi ps,'' he said. "We way of thanking the University of to soli cit support fo r improvements to Nf."h ,~ EditOT!i have a very pec ial fri endship with Delaware.·· all aspects of the uni versity. MBNA Ameri ca Bank has pl edged MB NA ... Cawley also gave statistiq on the Las t October. Roselle said that the $25 m il lion to the uni versity, Rose ll e sa id the maj o rity of number of uni versity students and campaign 's funds will be di stributed university President David P. Roselle MBNA' s pl edge is earmarked for alumni who work for the bank . among fi ve areas found by as essing announced Monday. students. The donation provides More than 1,400 un iversit y needs. The gift wi ll be one of the large! funding for the followin g: graduates are currently employed by The d istribution pro vides $50 ever given to the uni versity. • $ 15 millio n for sc ho la rships to MBNA. he sa id. and 700 to 800 million for student support. including The contr ibution toward the disadvantaged students; students work there part-ti me. scholarship money, $35 million for Campaign for Delaware's five-year, • $5 mill ion fo r the Co llege of In addit ion, 700 students attend the faculty support and $40 mill ion for $225 mill ion goal set by Rose l le Business and Economics; uni versity on MBNA scholarshi ps. academic su pport, whi ch encompasses brings the fund-raiser's total to $ 193 • $3 million fo r the Career Services Howard E. Cosgrove. chairman of fun d in g fo r student research and mil l io n, nearl y 86 percent o f its Ce nte r' s proposed new location the uni versity's Board of Trustees, curriculu m changes. overall target in j ust one-quarter the behind the pl ann ed parking garage to publicly thanked MB NA as well. The uni versity plans to raise $50 anticipated time. be built next to the Perkins Student "Thi newest commitment extends mi llion in capital s upport for new With MBNA Chairman and CEO Center; and enric hes MBNA ' s tradition o f technology, li bra ry s u pporr and Charles Cawley seated behind him at • and $2 mill io n fo r the Delaware support .to the [university] and is just cons truc'tio n, and $50 mi ll ion in the MBNA Ameri ca Hall press Center ·fo r Teacher Educati on. part of [its] exemplary program of expend able gifts. confere nce, Roselle said the Cawley wa quic k to downplay charitable support and caring for the "T hi campaign is pro babl y the university was privileged to enjoy MB NA' s donat ion as anything more general Delaware community," he most aggressive campaign ever done support from "one of the state 's most · than a note o f appreciati o n to the said. by a public institution," Roselle said generous corporate citizens. school. The Campaign for Delaware began at the press conference . THE REVIEW/ Eric J.S. Townsend " [t 's fitting we ma ke our " We do n ot consider thi s gift Oct. 2, 1998. and is scheduled to end "The '90s have been an exciting President David P. Roselle anno unced a $25 million announcement o n Valentin e' s Day, charitable at all," he said. In October 2003. It is a ti me fo r the university." gift to the university on Monday. Political College gun incidents rising H owever, McArthur said . the Westchester r· Community College campus doe not u ually have analyst i .Jn the problems with guns. Other universities have a more con tant frequency ~ Cross hairs j of gun-related incidences. ! Pa rr Three of Four: At the University of Arizona , there have been 48 How guns are used and incidences involvin g weapons reported during the seen on college speaks last three school years, according to University of campuses Arizona Poli ce Public Info rmation Officer Sgt. BY SUSAN STOCK Michael Smith. Mw~aging Neh'.'i Editor University of Ari zo na Director of Residence Life atUD The Feb. 9 shooting of a 19-year-old Westchester James Van Arsdel said the h igh number of gun­ Community College. NY student is the latest in an related incidences does not surprise him. He said increasing number of gun-re lated incidences on most of these invo lve guns being fou nd in cars BY LURLEEN BLACK campuses throughout the nation. stopped fo r traffic violations. not seriou offenses. Cin· Nell'S Editor Sgt. D o nald McArthur, Westche ler Co unty "In my mind, it's not the biggest problem we Commentato r and talk show host Police pubhc i nformation office r, said Joy Thomas have, but it's a si gn ificant problem ," he said. Tavis Smiley compared the black was shot by her former boy fri end in a campu The university is located in Tucson, Ariz .. an area community to the biblical parable bui lding. She moved out of the way and the bullet Van Arsdel said is " an hour from Mexico in a · of the prodigal son during his visit nicked her head, causing a sk ull fractu re and wo unds corridor of considerable drugs and il legal activity. to the university Friday ntght. to her left temple and ear. She was sent to the ''A lot of it has to do with the people around us As part of Kappa Week 2000, hospital. rather th an the people who are here." he said. the 34-year-old Smiley, named one The shooter, Olonzo Davis, then fa tal ly shot of Time magazine' s 50 most himself. No one else was injured. see SCHOOLS page A I 0 promising young leaders under 40, graced the auditorium of Mitchell Hall with a message o f empowerment to the sold-out. 650- member audience. 250 people attend V-Day play By usi\ig the story o f the prodigal so n from the Bible Smi ley - the host of Black BY JENNA R. PORTNOY fi led in and sat on the flo or in the Likening the vagina to a Entertainment Television' s "BET Student Affairs Editor womb of the Bacchus Theatre in '·second heart.'' Meyer's pi ece To night: Live with Tavis Per kins Student Center while fo cused upo n the need for a Smiley''- s po ke to the mos tly "I must tell you that up until o t hers sat In red ch airs " comm un ity or cul t ure of African heritage audience about ihis point everything I knew about surroun ding the stage. vaginas.·· committ in g to the Afri can­ my vagina was based on hearsay Moti vated in part by the American community. or invention. " " ' \lagina. ' The re, I 've said it. 500,000 women raped every year In the Bible, Jesus tells a story -The \lagilla Monologues 'Vagina·- said it again .... I say in the United State and the I 00 about the yo un gest son of a family it because I 'm not supposed to million victims of genital who asks his fat her fo r hi s portion A host of 22 female students say it. I say ir because it's a1z mutilation worldwide, En sler' of the inheritance. The father gi ves and fac ulty members, dressed in inl'isible word - a word that monologues are based on "vagina t~ e boy his share of the wealth and shades of red, pi nk and black - stirs up anxiety. awkwardness, interviews" he conducted with a the boy leaves the father's house vagina colors - performed Eve contempt and disgust." diver e group or more than 200 and goes to a far away land. Help me go home E ns le r' s Vagina Mo no lo gues wo men. After spending all of his money, befo re an audience of mo re than Jun ior Rachel Meyer, program Answers to the que ti on, " If the son of one of the richest men in • THE REV IEW/ Mike Louie 250 people Sunday night. coordinator and secretary of the your vag ina g ot dressed. what the land ends up eating slop with Kim Tasky h elps a lost dog look for its owner on Main Street To the tune·of upbeat songs, Harri ngton T heatre Ans would it wea r'?'' ranged from ··a the pigs. Friday. li ke 'T m [n Heaven When You Company, opened the show with leather jacket'' and ··an electrical When a signi ficant amount o f Smi le," prior to the start o f the a monologue addressi ng t he time passes, the son goes back to how, some audience members stigma behind the word '·vagina ... see SHOW page AS the father's house and is recei ve d with open arms. Smiley said that before realizing it was not too late to return home, Hackers raise security concerns the prodigal son made th ree mi stakes when he left· hi s father's house: He went too far, spent too BYKYLEBELZ online assailants entered illegally.