Women's soccer · Cyclists raise money Mission to Mars drops third straight for multiple sclerosis possible in future page 15 page 3 page 11 FREE TUESDAY Bush slashes tactical nuclear weapons arsenal . t By Robb Enright announcement Fn':'ay rughl, Bush called the weapons from reforming republics refusing The United States must focus more on Expe rt pred IC S Senior sratr ~porter changes "dramatic moves toward a new to have nuclear weapons on their soil, such responding to regional conflicts, Bush said, • President Bush ordered a comprehensive world of peace arid security" because they as Kazakhstan, Belorussia arid the Ukraine. like the recent Persian Gulf War, yet keep disarmament nuclear weapons reduction initiative Friday, are intended to provoke the Soviet Union to Some of the American strategic changes the potential to enlarge forces if needed. shocking the world with _the most will be immediate, while others will be To do this, a U .S. Strategic Command may allow significant arms reduction in 40 years. • News analysis subject to Soviet agreement and will be established for all nuclear weapons Bush's proposal would eliminate tactical compliance. control. Previously, the Navy commanded . nuclear weapons worldwide, reduce the • See editorial page 6 Though the plan calls to remove the sea-based nuclear forces, while the Air sta bI 1/Zatlon number of shan-range nuclear weapons and thousands of nuclear weapons, Bush Force controlled the bomber and land-based take long-range bombers off 24-hour alen. make similar cutbacks on weapons. stressed that the United States will continue forces. of struuu/inu The proposed changes would CUI the The president's plan will pressure the to have nuclear weapon capabilities. Bush's plan comes during major political tx:J. 0 existing 10,000 weapons and warheads in Soviet government, especially President Bush also called for streamlining and changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern · half. Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Russian restructuring the Armed Services to fulfill Europe, where governments are becoming SOVIet economy During his nationally televised President Boris N. Yeltsin, to reallocate the new objecti.ves. see WEAPONS page 8 Students protest Graduate ground breaking student Pair challenges university's allocation of funds convicted By Lori Salotto David P. Roselle said that the two students Sludent .-&irs Editor show a basic misunderstanding of policies. Two students face charges in the "The university gets money that it may of rape university's judicial system Friday after spend on programs, and the university also demonstrating at the groundbreaking gets some money that must be spent for ceremony for the Lammot DuPont Lab, the specific purpose of building," Roselle Doctoral candidate after being physically removed from the said. could receive up to 102 scene-by Public Safety officers. The university introduced the idea of a "It was just sort of a spontaneous new lab to the state five years ago, Roselle years for daughter's rape action," said Jason Halben (AS SR), one said. of the protesters. The state contributed money to the By Gretchen Wahl City News Editor The students were protesting the university for construction purposes and construction of the lab which is slatedto the administration is "legally required to A 34-year-old graduate student will face cost the university about $20 million. The spend the money only on those buildings," between 30 and 102 years in prison after administration has received money for the said Roselle. being convicted Wednesday of raping his building from the state, private benefactors The university considered its chemistry 9-year-old daughter. and corporations·, said university facilities, built in the 1930s, outdated and Abraham Feleke was arrested and Consll'Uction Manager Hal Mardent. see PROTEST page 5 charged May 28 with raping his daughter a C8pt. Jim Flatley of Public day earlier in their Colonial Garden . · apartment while Feleke's wife, the child's Safety said the students were ~ referred the university's mother, was not at home, Newark Police ' judicial system. He declined said. to comment further. Feleke, an Halbert said he and fellow exchange student protester Mark Glyde (AS from Ethiopia, SR), "basically feel that if was convicted by you have education, you need state Superior books, faculty, and Court of the programs," and not just following charges: "la:.vns and nice buildings." two counts of Halbert is unhappy with unlawful sexual the cutting of funds to the intercourse, one library and the possibility Maximilian count of unlawful that medical technology (Above) Protester Jason Halbert (AS SR) is removed by a Public Safety officer. (Left) sexual penetration, majoc may be eliminated, he Chairman of the board of trustees Andrew J. KirkpatriCk, former Du Pont chairman and one count of unlawful sexual Abraham Felke said. ~dward Jefferson, Gov. Michael N. Castle, National Science Foundation Director University President contact. Walter Massey and President David P. Roselle dedicate a new laboratory Friday. He is currently awaiting sentencing in Gander Hill Prison in Wilmington. Sentencing will follow a background investigation of the offense to determine the appropriate punishment, said assistant 650 Donations to university soar public defender Raymond Radulski. Radulski said Feleke denied the accusations of rape and cited marital Private funding outpaces last year's contributions by $1 million problems as a factor in the case. By Doug Donovan said Louis Beccaria, director of million, he said. The day after the attack, the girl told her Assistant News Editor Uniyersity Development. "The reason for this year's mother that her father had raped her. The '1991-92 fiscal year Private funding, which larger amount of pri"ate money," Police were immediately notified and appears to be the best year ever includes money raised or received Beccaria said, "is -because we've Feleke was arrested. for private funding suppon at the from alumni, corporations, placed a larger interest in Both attorneys agreed the case was 1987 1988 1989 1990 university, President David P. foundations, non-alumni friends cultivating larger donors, difficult to try, because of the nature of the Roselle said Friday. and bequests, Beccaria said, "We have an annual offense and the difficulty in obtaining Recent black enrollment · The university has raised $2.1 reached a record amount of $16.9 fundraising campaign among the testimony from the girl • .. i 200 million in private support from million in 1990-91. friends of the university, alumni Radulski said an appeal is likely. ~ § July 1, the first day of the fiscal Previously, fiscal year 1988-89 and also employees," said "The significant issue that we view as E u year, to Aug. 31, $1 million more netted the largest amount of Beccaria, whose office is an error in the trial on the part of the court ]i 150 than at the same time last year, private donations, totaling $13.5 see FUNDING page 8 see RAPE page 4 c .. .~~ ~ .----INDEX----, :t ' ~ 100 ·=~c 0 Opinion ...............................6 ~ j 50 L..-.___,___ _._ ___ __._ ___ ~ Vivant ................................ 11 Tip of the ca(s hat ~ 1991 1992 1993 1994 Classifieds ... .... , ................. 12 Goals for minority enrollment Entertainment ...... ............. 13 'Includes people of B!Kk, Hlsponic, and Native American descent Sports ....................... : ........ 15 Children's author Dr. Seuss, 87, dies Source: Com hemlve Minor' Busl~ Pr .., Comics .............................. 17 I do Graphic by Tom Czerwimki By Laura Fasbach them anywhere. 110tliU green ---Also inside:-- Copy Editor eggs and ham. I do nolliU them, Sam­ Children of all ages l-Am. -from Eggs and Fake fraternities .................. 2 Often uun.ed ro his pages "Green Ham" College aims to triple To lOJlgh al his rhymes Geisel, who began a career in Who are the druids ........... 11 For fun all the time advenlsing, published his first Prince's latest .................... 13 Butlhe dbclor l( cAters children's book in 1937 called "And to minority e~rollment Field hockey wins .............. 20 Tunttd the s,Ules 10 kars Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Because IUs rime has past ~ Street." Business and Economics plans recruitment Yet, his words will/OI'ever kul. It was not until 20 years later, Theodor Seuss Oelsel, more however, that he wrote the classic By Jeff Pearlman the number of minority business commonly lcnown a Dr. Seuss, died "The Cal in the Hat." Msistant Sports Editor graduates who pursue graduate last Tuesday a1 the 13e of 87 in his In this box are two things I will The College of Business and business studies and or maintain home in La Jolla, Calif. show ro you now. You will liM Economics introduced an intensive managerial or leadership positions His gift of comical rhymes with a lltese two things, said the cal minority recruitment program Sept. in an industry. reason. zany plocs and absurd wirhabow. 21, hoping to reverse recent trends The college current) y has 81 illustrations will be milled by the -from "Cat in the Hat" of declining minority enrollment at minority students, about 4.4 millions of fans thal enjoyed his wor1ts Other classics include "How the the university. percent, enrolled out of a 1,850 as children and throiJ&hout their lives. Orinch Stole Christmas," which also Tlte Comprehensive Minority total. Geisel is coosidered the author who became a television movie, "Green Business Program is designed to Earlier this month a court­ pushed aside Dick and Jane with Eus and Ham." and "'ne Fish Two provide academic and career­ appointed watchdog group that bizarre characters such u Sam-l-Am, F'lsh Red Fish Blue Fi~ . " related assistance to minority monitors the status of black Honon, Yenle the Turtle and that "I grew up on Dr. Seuss," said students enrolled in the college. education in Delaware criticized the notorious red and white bat-wemirli Barbara Knoche (AS FR.).