University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 20, Feb. 20, 1997
Bulletin Board
Summer camps
UPDATE will provide a supplement in early March listing University 
operated summer camps. The offices and units that contributed to last 
years article have been contacted. Other campus units that want to be 
listed should send their information to UPDATE, in the Office of Public 
Relations, through campus mail.
Be sure to include camp name, dates, site, cost, age level, brief 
description, coach/leaders name and title, plus a contact number where 
the person who submitted the material can be reached.
Deadline for receipt of information is Thursday, Feb. 27. 
For more information, call 831-8908. 
Library hours
Regular Morris Library hours through March 27 are 8 a.m.-midnight, 
Mondays-Thursdays; 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Fridays; 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturdays; and 
11 a.m.-midnight, Sundays.
 Special Collections and Exhibition Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 
Mondays-Fridays; and until 8 p.m., Tuesdays.
For branch library hours, call 831-BOOK. 
Elkton Road hearing
The Delaware Department of Transportation will hold a public workshop 
about improvements to Elkton Road, New London Road and Main Street from 
4-8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the City Council Chamber in the Newark 
Town Hall, 220 Elkton Rd.
The project involves proposals to provide two-way traffic on New 
London Road, between Cleveland Avenue and Main Street; two-way traffic 
on Elkton Road, between Main Street and Delaware Avenue; and 
improvements in pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.
Interested persons are invited to express their views, in writing, 
giving reasons for support of, or opposition to, the draft findings and 
recommendations. Comments will be received at the workshop or can be 
mailed to DelDOTs External Affairs Office, P.O. Box 778, Dover, DE 
19903. 
CPR classes
The Department of Occupational Health and Safety is sponsoring several 
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) classes. CPR for the Healthcare 
Professional will be offered two times, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturdays, 
March 15 and May 3, in the General Services Building.
Cost is $21 per person and preregistration is required.
CPR and Choking for Adult, Child and Infant will be offered two times, 
from 6-9 p.m., Wednesdays, April 16 and June 11, in the General Services 
Building.
Cost is $18 per person and preregistration is required.
Call 831-8475 for more information or to register. 
Yearbook photos
There are two final opportunitiesfrom Feb. 24-28 and March 3-7to 
have a senior portrait taken for the Blue Hen yearbook. The sitting fee 
is $5. 
Seniors must sign up in advance, and sheets will be available during 
the week prior to the session outside the Yearbook Office, 234 Perkins 
Student Center. Pictures will be taken in Room 219.
For information, call 831-2428. 
Blood drive
Blood Bank of Delaware/Eastern Shore will hold two blood drives on 
campus from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 25-26, in 
Multipurpose Rooms A and B of the Trabant University Center.
No appointments are necessary. UD employees, who also are Blood Bank 
members, will receive a membership credit for donating or they can give 
the credit to another member who is unable to give blood.
Additional blood drives are scheduled March 25 and 26 in the Trabant 
University Center. Blood drives also are tentatively planned for April 
and May.
During the 1995-96 school year, 797 members of the campus community 
gave blood during 13 UD blood drives.
For information about giving blood or joining the Blood Bank of 
Delaware/Eastern Shore, call 1-800-628-4008. 
Dance lessons
Learn the swing, cha cha, fox trot and other forms of dance in a 10-
week session of beginning ballroom dance lessons, scheduled from 8-9 
p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, beginning March 2, 4 and 6 
in the Pearson Hall gym. 
Intermediate lessons will be taught from 7-8 p.m., Thursdays, 
beginning March 6.
Cost is $25 for full-time students and $50 for others. Private lessons 
are available for $20 per hour. 
The lessons are sponsored by the UD Ballroom Dance Club.
For information, call Pat Grim at 831-1117 or 456-0983, or via e-mail 
at spring@udel.edu 
Radio information
WVUD will hold a meeting for members of the University community 
interested in learning how to become involved in the station. The 
informational program will be held at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 25, in 
Multipurpose Room C of the Trabant University Center.
WVUD needs staff for all aspects of broadcasting both on and off the 
air. This includes: DJs, sportscasters, newspersons, sales and public 
relations staff and music librarians. 
For more information, contact Dave Alperson 831-2701. 
Shuttle to D.C.
The Washington, D.C., shuttle to the Library of Congress and the 
Folger Shakespeare Library is in operation during the spring semester to 
faculty and graduate students on Fridays only.
Reservations must be made in advance by calling Darlene Reynolds or 
Debbie Lehman, English, at 831-2361, by noon on Thursday of each week.