I'm No Whittingtom!
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Itt Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspape r In Section 2 Football looks to and a National Pacemaker Victory in kick some Atlantic City is a UMass toss of the dice page B5 page Bl FREE FRIDAY UDdrug Grad student hit by Mack Truck arrests walking out of Willard when he "We are very positive about A former varsity soccer player is in serious saw Osmond lose control of her her recovery," she said. bicycle. condition with severe head injuries. Ac cording to Macke, while soar over Osmond fel l to the left, in the "We are very BY PETER B. HALL Osmond re mains in serious re fu sed to comment, although direction of the truck, h e r Staff Reporter but stable condition in the an investigation is still being bicycle traveled toward the cars positive about A graduate student sustained intensive care unit of Christiana conducted . park ed on the side of the street. past year severe head injuries in a bicycle Hospital, a spokesperson said. Megan Tamagny (AS SR) He said he then saw Osmond's her recovery. I accident in front of Willard Hall Mary Martin, of the Graduate was driving down Main Street upper body run over by the Education Building Tuesday Student Academic Affairs just behind Miller when she saw truck . feel good after afternoon, Newark Police said. Office, v is ited Osmond O smond appear from Macke said he could not tell, From 26 in 1992 According to police, Kelly Wednesday and said she was underneath the truck. however, if her head had been visiting her." Osmond (ED GR) lost control being treated for a depressed Tamagny pulled over and injured by the impact of her fall to 52 in '93, of her bicycle and fell while she skull fracture and was taken off went into the Deer Park Tavern, or the truck -Mary Martin was being passed by a tractor a respirator Tuesday night. where she phoned for an Martin said she feels many aren't just trailer driven by Charles Miller, Police said no charges were ambulance. confident about Osmond 's "I feel good after visiting of Harrisburg, Pa. filed against Miller, who Kevin Macke (AS SO) was prognosis. her." saytng no. BY SANoY ORMSBEE Copy Editor The number of drug-related arrests at the university has A man burns nearly doubled from 26 during the 199~ fiscal year to 52 during down the house, the 1993 fiscal year, said Lt. Joel Ivory of University Police. .then kills himself In addition, the number of drug violations reported to Public Safety increa·secf !rom 4J m t ':J':JL Murder, to 68 in 1993, Ivory said . Despite these increases, he sai d : "I don't know that the numbers are significant enough to suicide in show a trend [in drug use]. Maybe we're getting better at enforcing it." Marijuana violations in Ogletown particular have also increased. Twenty-five people were BY LAUREN MEDNICK arrested for marijuana possession Stall Reporter in 1993 as opposed to 16 arrested A 38-year-old man shot and in 1992, Ivory said . killed himself and his wife after Dean of Students Timothy F. leading his three children safely Brooks, who recently returned out of his burning Ogletown home from a conference sponsored by Monday morning. the University of Vermont which Stephen Hazzard shot his wife, focused on alcohol and drug Louise Hazzard, 33, twice in the issues and liability, believes there head at approximately 2 a.m., just is a national trend in marijuana after he phoned his mother and use. told her to pick up the children at "Clearly marijuana use is on an his Todd Estates residence, said increase throughout the country - Curtis M. Clifton, acting media especially on both coasts," he coordinator for New Castle County said. Police. Brooks sa id the number of drug Clifton said the three children, policies handled through th e Dean ages 9 through 12, were unharmed of Studen ts office during the and being cared for by month of September increased relatives. from four last year to fi ve this Hazzard, of 16 Pierson Place, year. allegedly woke the children and "An in crease of one doesn't told them to go wait outside in the sound like muc h, but it's 20 family's automobile, he said. percent," he said. He then splashed an unreported Although there has not been a flammable liquid throughout the specific crackdown on drugs house, set it on fire and then shot Ron Whittington has taken over the reigns of the university's affirmative action program after serving under President Roselle for three vears. recently at the univers ity, Ivory himself once in the head, Clifton said, " Some violations occur said. when officers come acro ss drugs The State Medical Examiner's during other arrests." office has concluded the Hazzards ' Although the number of drug cause of death to be from gunshot related incidences has risen, Ivory wounds and an investigation by I'm no Whittingtom! said the number of alcohol the Delaware State Fire Marshall's ,.pf:• [ • [ • "H mmphs" and "Yeahhs" "That was an unfortunate related violations has decreased office proved the fire was set h d from 324 in 1992 to 289 in 1993 . intentionally. New UD aJJ lrma lVe ac lOn ea arose from the audience, and thing that happened last year at several heads spun to see the the press conference," says Brooks said the number of Chief Jeff Smith, of Newark's • • h b h b alcohol cases has decreased over Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Co., R On Wh ltflngton as een UTf y direct recipient of Plant's wrath. Whittington, leaning back in his Ron WhiLtington just sat. office chair but never wavering the past three years, from 599 which responded to the incident, during the 1990-91 year, to 505 said the fire was minor. what he COnsiderS a bad rap. Motionless.. from the interviewer's eyes. during the 1991-92 year, to 439 "It only took 10 minutes to It extinguish, but it was enough to BY IEFF PEARLMAN conference arranged by the is more than a year later see WHITIINGTON page A3 see DRUGS page AS fill the house full of thick smoke," ·Editor in chief univers ity 's Concerned Black now, a nd Whittington s truts he said. "So much so that you on WhitL ington sat Students. around his new third floor couldn't see your hand in front of motionless, his three On this day, however, he was Hullihcn Hall office like a father your face. R piece suit and heavy-set clearly alone. roos te r g uarding a ne st. The Jay can'~ walk here "Nobody could have survived torso glued to a chair in the As Whittington remained in timid, expressionless man from . this fire," he said. Perkins Student Center's Rodney his frozen state, various the Rodn ey Room is long gone He added that when firefighters Room. speakers took the podium to now, replaced by a smiling, no more arrived at the scene, they were told It was Sept. 24, 1992, and complain about what they happy-go-lucky fellow - a there were two people trapped in termed "brutal" University forme r Delaware gridder who BY CHRISTINE GALASSO South, Main Street by Hardees the house. Police treatment in an incident proudly points to the Blue Hen Cop y Editor and North College and "When we got upstairs to the involv ing several black football picture hanging on one Stree t-w alking was always a Delaware Avenues periodically master bedroom, we found two Christiana Tower residents of the office walls. crime - but stree t crossing ? throughout the week . individuals lying on a bloody earlier in the week. After holding the position of Look out jaywalkers, Tuesday Primarily during the daytime, bed," he said. The word s were harsh but assistant to the president fo r ma rk ed th e first day of officers will be giving tickets to AAA three years under David P . In addition to a hand gun lying just, more against the situation crosswalk duty for the Newark jaywalkers, as well a s to on the bed, two containers marked African-American than any particular individual. Roselle, Whittington is now the Police Department, who will motorists who do not stop at the as gasoline were also found, Smith Administrator• Then state representative AI un iver s it y's director of monit o r the travels of area crosswalks, Lt. William said. 0 . Plant took the stage. affirmative action and multi pe destrians and motorists and Nefosky said. Clifton said further The first in a 3-part series. "We must get action from cultural programs. issue tic kets to tho se not These violations do not have investigation revealed that administrators," Plant said . With th e transition has come a obeying traffic laws. specified penalties, and it is Hazzard and his wife were having "And we must- we must freedom from the heat - along Police offi cers will be possible that a court appearance domestic problems. Whittington was one of more keep on Ron Whittington to do with what Whittington believes present on South College will be required if a ticket is than 100 black faces at a press something." is a new chance to maximize his A venue , as wel l as Kent Way see SUICIDE page A4 potential. see JAYWALKING page A3 UDHISTORY CONTENTS INSIDE REVIEW It may not be as good as Th e On Oct. 20, 1969, Campus Flash .