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News Mosaic Sports Student reaction to the RW JF Rappers paradise - the Men's lacrosse stuns ''party school" posters first in a three-part series No.9 Penn State 12-11 SeepageA7 See page Bl See page Cl An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • Non-Profit Org. ~Review Online • THE U.S. Postage Paid www. review. udel. edu ewark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Tuesday Volume 125, Number 49 April 27, 1999 Campus A matter of life and death housing rema1ns• PART I: THE CULTURE OF ALCOHOL ./ Family Life alcohol- ./ CAMPUS LIFE PART II: ALCOHOL ON CAMPUS free ./WHAT UD HAs DoNE ./ LESSONS LEARNED ,.'c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEBATE BY MEGHAN RABBITT Ma naging MoJaic Editor PART III: As a national debate rages over.the THE GREEK BATILE question of implementing alcohol-free • N ATIONAL CHAPTER D EBATE living environments at colleges and • LEGALITIES INVOLVED universities, officials at the University of Delaware have no plans to adapt an • R EACTION FROM UD CHAPTERS alcohol-free on-campus housing policy. John Bishop, assistant vice president for Student Life. said he doesn't think it is goes dry, the problem is still there but is necessary, or wise , to become a dry simply moved off-campus - parties and campus. drinking are moved to a different A policy forbidding alcohol in residence location." halls would not solve the problem of Bishop a l so questioned the living irresponsible tlrinking patterns, and would environment a dry campus would create. only drive the drinking culture elsewhere, "You have to ask how artificial the he sn id . atm s phe re w o uld be, the atmosphe re "'The University of Delaware is trying to you· re creating, .. he- said . .. It seems to me c'hange t'he drinking cu'lru·re wi'th t'hc when a camplls go~s ctry , thllY are in effect community," he said . "We don' t want to saying, ' We ' re not going to include push the problem off-campus and into the anything in our education system that community." involves alcohol.' There are currently 13 universities and "We need to say, 'There's a way to use colleges in the nation who have alcohol alcohol that' s responsible, and that' s what free on-campus living environments, most we want to talk about."' of them the same size as the university. The university ' s philosophy is one But Bishop questi o ned the results of shared by neighboring schools. these alcohol-free policies. Jodi Gan, coordinator of Alcohol and "It's hard to believe any campus has Drug Prevention Programs at the kept people from drinking at all," he said. University of Maryland, College Park, said " Perhaps some institutions that are small, ' a lthoug h the univers ity has di s cussed conservative places may have succeeded in implementing an alcohol-free on-campus that. see UD_page AS "My guess is when a university our size Both sides rest in THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill Two unidentified death penalty protestors wait outside the Smyrna prison where David J. Lawrie was Flagg murder trial · being executed by the state of Delaware for the murder of his wife, two daughters and a neighbor's child. BY APRIL CAPOCHINO with Pagan. Mooney said Flagg questioned BY ERIC J.S. TOWNSEND breathing had stopped, curtains in front of the observation Ciry Nen·s Etiiror him about how to find an attorney who deals Natimwi!Srate News Edirnr window we re drawn to preserve the identity of those WILMINGTON - Donald A . Flagg with disability claims and was upset when SMYRNA - St ra pped on a gurney with arms conducting the procedure. appeared no rmal last year according to David Sowa, Pagan's hand doctor, would not outstretched, David J. Lawrie released a deep sigh before Lawrie's execution foll owed the Aug. 6, 1992, murder of Edward J. Mooney, a medical assistant at give Pagan a doctor's note to miss work fo r taking the last six breaths of hi s life. hi s estranged wife, Mi chelle; th e couple' s daughter . 2- First State Orthopedics, who testified Friday. two days. Lawrie was executed by the state of Delaware at 12 :17 year-old Tabitha and 4 -year-old Dawn; and 2-year-old Mooney, 32. testified as a rebuttal witness Under cross-examination, Mooney a.m. Friday after spending six years on death row for the Charles Humbertson, who Michelle had been babysi tti ng for the prosecution, stating that he saw Flagg testified that he did not document Flagg' s murder of his wife, 1wo daug hters a nd a neighbo rh ood along with Charles' sister, Lisa. on April 23, 1998, when he came into the arrival with Pagan but was positive of his child. Michelle, 25, left Lawri e weeks earlier and had moved in office with his girlfriend, Janet Pagan. The identification after seeing him in the news the Before the lethal mi x of chemi cals began its flow into his just blocks away at her stepfa ther's home. On the night of appointment was the fourth day Debra Puglisi next day. veins, Lawrie's last words gave th anks to his family for Aug. 5, Lawrie smoked hundreds of dollars worth of crack was being held captive at Flagg' s home. Flagg confessed to sneaking into the their support through his trial and punishment. cocaine, and early the next morning, still high on drugs, After spending 20 minutes with Flagg, Puglisis' Newark home on April 20: 1998, "I would like to thank my family and friends for being by drove to where Miche ll e and the gi rl s were li vi ng. Moo ney said Flagg appeared nor·mal but killing Anthony Puglisi and raping and my side all the way," he said. "I would not have made it this Upon arrival, Lawrie kicked in the door, doused the asked odd questions about Pagan's treatment ·kidnapping his wife Debra for five days. far without my family." interior with gasoline, and proceeded to stab Mi c he ll e and upcoming surgery for her hand. 1. Brendan O ' Neill and Kester I. H . Seconds later, a combinatio n of potass ium chloride, repeatedly. He then lit the gasoline on fire and es caped "Some of the questions he asked were ones Crosse, Flagg attorneys, acknowledge the pancuronimum bromide and sodium thiopental was injected through a window. I don' t get that often," Mooney said. attack but argue that Flagg was suffering through an intrave nous line leading from a wall where Michell e was able to push Lisa out through a window However, Mooney said Flagg did not from paranoid schizophrenia. Lawrie's executioner stood. shortly before she died, and it was Li sa who later testified appear upset when he came out of the clinic If convicted, Flagg will face life in prison The color in the condemned man' s already pale face or death by lethal injection. faded with each passing mo ment. Once it appeared hi s see EXECUTION page A7 The defense rested its case on Friday after its only witness testified. Dr. Carol A. Tavani, who became Aagg's psychiatrist after his arrest, said Flagg was insane at the time of the attack because he could not fully understand his actions. Tavani again dismissed the accusations that she was a biased witness because she is No charges in alleged rape case Flagg's psychiatrist and does not want to see him hurt. BY JESSICA COHEN complaint, review copies of the repo rt Brooks said the uni versity co n tructs "It would be foolish of me to make a case City Ne11 ·S Ediwr and extensiv ely speak wi th the victim. its own case separate fr om any cri minal that I don't honestly believe in my hearts of Charges have yet to be fi led against "They a lso largely take into account charges wh ich may o r may not be filed hearts," she said. · the university student accused of raping a the victim's wishes," ' he said. " Often by th e a11orn ey general 's offi ce. Also testifying as a rebuttal witness on female student in her Dickinso n Hall times, these cases wi II not prosecute 'T hey have no impac t whatsoever on Friday was Flagg's friend Rosetta Shepherd, room on March 6. because the victim does not wish to fil e it." Brooks said . " We move ahead no who testified Flagg kept her captive in his Capt. Joel Ivory of University Police criminal charges." matter what." motel room for three hours 10 years ago. said the case is still being rev iewed by Ivory said the victim knew th e man The case is still mov ing through the A psychiatrist who saw Aagg once in !994 the state attorney general ' s office. who she said assaulted he r ·and Ivory universit y's judicia l process. he aid. but also testified and said that he was not a "It is typical for cases of thi s nature to added that the m a n h a s s ince been upon completio n. th e stu dent" s identity schizophrenic, and a co-worker of Flagg' s at take thi s length. of time to be reso lv ed removed from the residence hall. and the o ut co me wi ll re main Chrysler who testified that he did an because there is so mu ch for them to take Dean of Stude nts Timothy F.