Daydreamin' about Daytona page 3 THE l,f.:· J EVIEWA' FOUR-STAR ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER TUESDAY NAACP urges return Room ·of Pioneer Fund gift deposit all money to the Pioneer Fund." 23 and 24 . rates UDAACasks The Pioneer Fund is a New The Faculty Senate Comminee university to give York-based organization which on Research has been collecpng grants money to institutions for information about the Pioneer Fund double back $174,000 research "imo the problems of race since December. The comminee bettennent with special reference to invited people to contribute By Mark Nardone the people of the United States, and infonnation about the fund. Executive Editor for the advance of knowledge and Jack Miles, affirmative ac ion Added charge to the dissemination of information officer and director of the decrease length The Delaware branch of the with respect to any studies so made President's Commission to Promote NAACP has decided to support a or in general with respect to Racial and Cultural Diversity, said, of waiting list University of Delaware African heredity and eugenics," according "The university right now has the American Coalition (UDAAC) to the fund's 1985 charter. dilemma in the right place, in the By Mike Boush request that the university return a Beginning in June 1988, the Faculty Senate research Assistant News Editor $174,000 gift for research about fund began making payments to th~ committee." racial intelligence differences. university to support research by Ronald F. Whittington: assistant The deposit fee for students At a meeting at Delaware State Dr. Linda S. Gottfredson, professor to the president, said it is the "most applying for on-campus housing has College in Dover Feb. I 0, officers of educational studies, who serious issue I've been involved been increased by $100 to combat from Delaware's four chapters of organized a lecture series about the with." However, only faculty can waiting lists, a university official the National Association for the implications of intelligence make a decision about the money said Sunday. Advancement of Colored People differences for employment. The because it is a complex issue. David G. Butler, director of decided to support UDAAC ~nd payments totaled $174,000. Miles called the issue Housing and Residence Life, said demand that the funds be returned Mitchell said Wednesday that his "distasteful" and said he is not the increase from $100 to $200 wiU to the donor, Delaware branch organization has been doing its surprised by the allention it has be applied to next year's room President Littleton P. Mitchell said. "homework" about the Pioneer received. "Awareness is raised," he charges for upperclassmen. In a Jan. 30 statement, UDAAC Fund and has asked NAACP's said. "Most folks are aware of the "Some students use on-campus "concluded that it is not in the best Washington, D.C., bureau to situation." housing as a safety net if they can't interest of the university to be investigate the organization. The "No matter what happens," get housing elsewhere," Buller said. associated with the Pioneer Fund: bureau's findings will be presented Whittington said, "there'll be "The fee is intended to We call on the university to return to the NAACP's regional people who don't agree with the discourage these students from conference in Philadelphia March decision." applying," he said. Upperclassmen who receive an assignment will have two weeks to cancel the application to receive a Police bust cocaine dealers $100 refund. After two weeks, no refund wiU be given. Students placed on the waiting ;,. Jojoint undercover operation list can cancel by the last day of final examinations and receive a Since January, police and the $150 refund. After that date, Drugs believed DEA have beo.en following what they students who cancel will forfeit the to be trafficked believe to be a drug-selling entire $200. operation that deals at least one In the past, about 900 upperclassmen were placed on the in Newark area ' kilogram of cocaine every week. ' . Officials believe the cocaine waiting list and about 500 would By Rlchelle Perrone comes from New York cancel over the summer, Butler City News Editor Albenoc. Robeno P. Wilmington where it is then said. Baez Lopez distributed to apartments throughout "This makes the waiting list Two Delaware men were arrested Newark, including Sandlcwood longer and is a disadvantage to Wednesday and charged with selling Alberto C. Baez of Jefferson Apartments, Gore said. people who want [on-campus] a-half kilogram of cocaine with a Street in Wilmington and Roberto P. From these apartments, dealers housing," Butler added. street value of $500,000 to Lopez of New York City were distribute the cocaine to the street~. The fee will go into effect for undercover officers in the University charged with trafficking, possession he said. next year's housing assignments, Plaza on Route 273, New Castle with the intent to distribute cocaine, Gore said police believe the but will be collected next month County Police said. resisting arrest, second-degree operation is highly sophisticated and when housing registration fonns are A third suspect eluded the police conspiracy and mainraining a vehicle the dealers use electronic equipment due, he said. despite extensive efforts to find the for the distribution of drugs, Gore to distribute the drugs. Barbara Rexwinkel, associate person, police said. said. Also in connection with the director for administration of Police searched the area with the The arrest is part of an ongoing operation, New Castle County Police Housing and Residence Life, said: New Castle County K-9 unit and a joint investigation by the New Caslle arrested and charged Jose Vasquez "We want to assign the students as Delaware State Police helicopter, County Drug Control Unit, the Drug of the Bronx, New York and Willie quickly as possible. We're hoping to said New Castle County Police Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Torres of New York City, with force [upperclassmen] to have to William Gore, public infonnation Wilmington Police Vice Unit, he possession of a quarter-pound of officer. said. cocaine last month. see DEPOSIT page 9 Sports center to utilize space on athletic fields being used by the College of Agriculture land Agricultural Sciences. to be used for Hollowell said the practice fields would take up two or three acres of space relocation land now being used by the agriculture program. By Richard Jones Dr. John K. Rosenberger, Assistant Entertainment Editor chainnan of the animal science and agricultural biochemistry The construction of the department, said, "It's not a matter of sports/convocation center will use how much acreage [is used! but up to 20 acres of land currently where the land is located because being used by the athletic some land has less utility [for the department and two or three acres of college's programs]." land now being used by the Collge Hollowell said the university of Agricultural Sciences, a would work with the College of university official said Monday. Agricultuml Sciences "to find some David E. Hollowell, senior vice land that would have minimum president for Administration, said impact on their research or any of the construction of the SIS-million their programs." center would displace two or three Rosenberger said if certain practice fields which would probably be relocated on land now see AGRICULTURE page 9 r· . ' l < '2 • THE REVIEW • February 20, 1990 Syphilis cases on the rise in Delaware Reported cases the state syphilis increase as a "They believe that people might definite threat to the students. be using drugs, trading sex for Potentially fatal disease for women triple, Lowry said she thinks university drugs or having sex with drug f Exotic food festival students are more responsible than users," Silvennan said. curable with penicillin raises awareness men double teen-agers who do not recognize Young adults between the ages By the ramifications of being sexually of 20 and 40 are affected most By Jay Cooke shape. It enters the body through ByReyseartea active. often by the disease, Silverman The Pan-African Food Assistant News Editor the skin or mucus membranes. Staff Reporter Silverman said from 1988 to said. Festival was held at the Center The chief mode of transmission 1989, the number of cases for Silverman said syphilis can be for Black Culture as pan of the Some scientists have traced its of syphilis is sexual intercourse, The number of syphilis cases women almost tripled from 65 to contra.cted through contact with African : Consciousness origins to the ancient Greek and but it can be contracted during repOned in Delaware has more than 190. The number of cases for men saliva, semen, blood or vaginal Celebration, said committee Roman civilizations. sexual contact with the rashes or doubled from 1988 to 1989, during the same period doubled discharge. It is rarely transmitted chainnan Troy C. Banks. Other researchers question open sores of an affected person. according to Dr. Paul Silverman, from 99 to 204. through kissing. Sponsored by the African whether Columbus' crew brought There are several stages of the state epidemiologist for the Bureau Silverman said the inequality Silverman warned untreated Consciousness Committee, the it over to the new world from disease and these are very similar of Disease Prevention. can be attributed to the disease syphilis is especially dangerous to food festival included an array of Spain in 1492 or if they carried it in both sexes. During the primary In 1988, 164 cases of syphilis in predominantly affecting the male pregnant women because it can be dishes form the West Indies, back with them on the return stage, a small sore called a chancre its most communicable stage were homosexual population in the transmitted to the baby during Africa, and the Caribbean.