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.. In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Sta r All-American Newspaper Itt Section 2 Down and out and a National Pacemaker And the Review with Delaware; recipe contest Hens lose to TSU winner is ... pageB4 page Bl FREE TUESDAY State NAACP has its Guy Student charged in Journal. A controversial election winds up, but the "The repu tation thi s organization has worked to attain over 80 years has been Tower sexual assault tarnished," he said. results are very unclear. BY BRIAN HICKEY Flatley said the arrest was made Brown was unav ailable for further comment. Ciry News fdiror BY' M VICTORIA KEMP "This is the worst process I've ever seen. when Berkey came to the Public ~Hisranr Features Editor According to the News Journal, Guy A male university student was This is not civil rights," Jones said. "This is Safety office to turn himself in proclaimed himself winner, (winning 14, or arrested Thursday in connection after University Police contacted Samuel L. Guy has been re-elected to a not an open process. It violates everything less than half, of 34 possible votes), despite two-year term as president of the Delaware this organization stands for." with a Nov. 6 sexual assault in the him about the case. complaints that votes cast against him were Christiana West Tower, University Berkey will face the university Conference of the National Association for Michael A. Brown, voting delegate and discarded and not counted. the Advancement of Colored People Police CapL Jim Flatley said. judicial process after completion of Guy said he would ca ll a special meeting Donald John Berkey (AS SR), the University Police investigation (NAACP), but controversy has made it of NAACP branch officers and members to unclear if the results are legitimate. 25, of Millville, Del., was charged into the incidenL discuss his incoming term in office. with first-degree unlawful sexual "(Berkey) is accused of a very During Saturday's heated NAACP Guy was unable to be reached for conference in Milford, it was questionable intercourse and second-degree serious charge off campus," said "This is the worst comment about his victory . burglary, police said. Dean of Students Timothy F. whether or not local leaders would Beatrice Patton Carroll of Wilmington, recognize Guy's re-election because of vote In the Nov. 9 edition of The Brooks. "U he is found guilty, he process I've ever seen. who oversaw the count, was quoted in the Review, it was reported that the will face serious penalties on count and convention violations. News Journal as saying the eight ballots According to Sunday's issue of The victim is an acquaintance of campus as well." marked "no" for Guy's re-election were Berkey and the case was being Flatley said Berkey was Wilmington News Journal, Guy said, "The This is not civil rights." invalidated because Guy was the only vote total indicates to me the work investigated by University Police processed and released from -Bobby Carmichael Jones official candidate for president. and the state's AttOrney General's Newark Police on $2,000 secured performed [during my tenure] has been By Carroll's count, Guy received a worthy of my re-election." Office. bond. majority , or 14 of the 25 eligible votes. NAACP Political Action Chairwoman Both Berkey and the victim, Brooks said a disciplinary However, it could not be determined how whose name was not released, are hearing for Berkey will be Bobby Carmichael Jones was also quoted as the 11 other votes were cast, the News saying irregularities in the final vote count, vice president of the NAACP Newark residents of the Christiana West scheduled for sometime in early Journal reported. Tower. January. as well as other questionable procedures by Branch, said he thought the election was Carroll could not be reached for further Guy, tainted the election. invalid and illegal, according to the News comment. THE FALL OF THE SEMESTER Children see a future of uncertainty in America Some names have been changed to protect identities. But children of the '90s are skeptical, and to hear their cynicism and mistrust is eerie. BY ROBYN FURMAN Todd is terrified. "I don't think I'll live to be 28," Managi'fl editor the Wilmington teen says. ''I'm 17 and I'm saying 'They have to really believe they make a difference, that." tlrnJ one person can make a difference in whnl happeru He shakes his head and quietly says, "The world in this world. And it is this belief thal one person does is over." make a real difference in the ouJcome of a contest or the Todd can't be concerned with the future if he's d(!lle/opmenl of a community or in the progress of a living to survive today. naJion ... This beliefthnl one person makes a difference His friend Kevin is frustraLed and confused. He's sick of hearing that kids are the future and that they should try to be positive influences. "How can I do that when there's nothing in society for me to do?" Michael Ferrari, associate professor for Individual and Family Studies, thinks this is a critical time in America. "The next generation is an investment," Ferrari says. "And we're not leaving them with much of a legacy." Kevin lives in a nighunare filled with violence. is the hope of the world." The 16-year-old grew up in the projects of -Hubert H. Humphrey Wilmington and says walking in his neighborhood is like entering a war zone. Embedded within deep blues, greens and browns "You gotta watch yourself when you come into are the answers to a country's problems. my neighborhood," he says. "I prefer not to carry a Behind the eyes of America's children, the future gun, but I want to be able to protect myself." begins to make sense. Marc Pacilio, associate executive director for the They are the reason for change, the reason for Delaware Counsel on Crime and Justice Center, hope. wants to know why kids feel they need to protect They are the leaders, inventors, mothers, fathers, themselves. grandparents and teachers of tomorrow. seeCHILDREN page A4 Chill in with Claus whose face is masked by the Young and old alike flock to thick woolly beard. Her face is beet-red. the mall to see the man in red. She's about to cry, but BY CHUCK CREEKMUR the suitJ is about enough." holds it in . Sea(( Reporter Ragan has been Santa Santa tries to tickle her A small ch ild approaches Claus during the Christmas so she'll smile for the the jolly man timidly, season for two years at camera, but his efforts are determined to give him a Christiana Mall. unsuccessful . Christmas wish list. Ragan, a retired DuPon l Many children, Ragan "So, little one, what Corp. employee, said he says , are scared of his would you like for used to fool appearance. Christmas this year?" a big the children " There's not too much man asks in a jolly tone. in his ho-ho-ho-ing going on," he eighborhood says with a smirk. "I found Whether you believe in Saint Nick out real quickly that that him or not, Santa Claus, the for years. He scares the little guys. crimson dynamo, has more ~ ~ ··~~'f ::l!~says he has "When they ' re coming up power than a thousand loved every the line, they may want to reindeer during the minute of it. hear a ho-ho,'' he says. "But Christmas season. "We have a when they get up close, they But even Superman has to "Li~~i.. !ll nood time don't want to hear that ho go home to a normal life with the ho stuff." after the action is gone. kids," Ragan In the '90s, those who Don Ragan, of Newark, says . "They play the part of Santa have cheerfully packs away his ClAUS come up to to be careful not to cross the red suit and fake beard after me all wide- line considered offensive entertaining a long line of eyed, although you do get a touching, Ragan says. " W e eager, toy-hungry kids. few that cry." have a paper on Santy's "That suit's awful hot," One little girl cautiously Ragan says. 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