Fire Engulfs Main St. Apartments by JAIME BENDER Complete and Repairs Are Made
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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Malin's Market celebrates Hens football wins again, more than 25 years, 42-0, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Tuesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE \'olun1e 127, Issue 10 www.review.udel.edu Tuesda~· , October 3, 2000 Fire engulfs Main St. apartments BY JAIME BENDER complete and repairs are made. 'There wasn't a lot of damage done [to Szep grabbed a frre extinguisher and Ciry News Editor Senior Brendan Furey, a resident of one Margherita's]," he said, "so we were able to entered through the back door. A fire broke out on East Main Street of the apartments, said he and other tenants open back up." He and Officer Scott Rieger ran up the early SWlday morning above Margherita's are living with friends until they are Newark Hot Bagels and Deli manager stairs and were met with a hallway full of Pizza, leaving an apartment complex in permitted to return. · AI Rusinque said the business should be up smoke. They made their way to the front of ruins, officials said. "I am not sure when they will let us back and running again in the next few days. the hallway and opened the door of one of The cause of the fue is currently Wider in," he said. "It's all up in the air right "We hope to reopen by the end of the the apartments, calling for anyone inside to investigation, Newark Police said. now." week," he said. exit immediately. Property damage is estimated at Furey said he is unsure when he will be Farrell said the affected businesses need The apartment was too smoky to enter, $200,000, said John H. Farrell IV, public able to move back into his apartment. clearance from the state Board of Health so he and Rieger turned around and ran information officer for the Aetna Hose "I know they're still cleaning up and before they can reswne operation. toward the stairs. Hook & Ladder Company. doing a lot of work," he said. "So who Det. Michael Szep of the Newark Police Szep and Rieger left the building with 'The smoke damage was tremendous," knows when we'll get our apartment back." gave the following account of the incident three tenants who were in one of the Farrell said. 'The apartment the fire started , Newark Hot Bagels and Cluck-U Szep was driving down Main Street apartments and then waited for fire officials in will probably have to be rebuilt" - Chicken, located below the apartments, are Sunday at 12:19 a.m. when a person on the to arrive. THE REVIEW/Christopher Bunn The number of students left without temporarily closed as a result of the fire. sidewalk outside of Margherita's Pizza Furey said he was next door at a friend's An early-morning fire above Margherita's Pizza residence is Wlknown, Farrell said, but they Margherita's Pizza reopened Monday at flagged him over and pointed to flames Sunday closed off traffic to Main Street for hours• are Wlable to return until the investigation is 2:00 p.m., manager Mike Dellamone said. corning out of the window of an apartment see BLAZE page A9 • University to limit Trustee skateboarding areas ·extends BY KEVIN BARRETT "If you walk around campus, you will be Staff Reporter able to see the places damaged by the University students who skateboard may skateboards," he said. family be forced to find alternate means of In order to repair or replace what has transportation, university officials said. been damaged, he said, the university would The university, working together with have to pay thousands of dollars. Public Safety, has developed a program to "Some of those dollars come out of your legacy stop skateboarding in certain areas of pocket each year in tuition," he said. "It is campus in an effort to prevent damage by hard for me to believe that a 'grinder' would skateboarders who "grind," said Rick be so cavalier about what they were doing if Part Five ofa five-part Armitage, university director of government they had to pay for the damage they are series on the Board of relations. causing." Trustees Grind.ing.l.s._j.wnping with a skateboard City Councilrnan..)err,y__CJi.fuul..siid. .th.e onto raised surfaces, and sliding the metal Council was informed of tbe proposed ban at BY JENINE MULLIN on the edge of that surface, said Public its Sept. 25 meeting. Stoff Rq>orrer Safety Director Lawrence Thornton. Clifton said the ban does not apply to Board of Trustees member RR.M. Armitage said the university skateboarding in general, just certain (Ruly) Carpenter said it felt great, as administration will work with the media to practices skateboarders engage in. president of the 1980 Philadelphia educate the community about the ban, which "Skateboarders tend to get into Phillies, when he placed the World will be implemented in the next few weeks. performing, and that's what can be Series Championship ring on his The ban will prevent further damage to potentially damaging," he said. finger. the steps and walls caused by the Armitage said the university has no He said it feels better to be a part of skateboarders, Armitage said. problem with skateboarding as a means of his family's 55-year tradition at the getting around. Wliversity though. "A skateboarder who simply is using their Students regularly participate in his board as transportation is not causing the family' s tradition when they attend damage the university is soncerned about," concerts at the Bob Carpenter Center or he said. work out at the Carpenter Sports Public Safety will work with people who Building, but seldom do they consider are simply using their skateboards for the story behind the name. transportation, Armitage said. The Carpenter story began in 1945 "Others will be the target of enforcement and continues today with the presence actions to deter and hopefully eliminate the of Carpenter ill as the chairman of the damage being caused by grinding," he said. Committee on Student Life and Thornton said the majority of people who Athletics on the board. do any damage are non-students who are Carpenter ill said two members of visiting the campus. his family have been inducted into the "Skateboarders are always looking for THE REVIEW/Andrew Mehan Wliversity's Athletic Hall of Fame and places to challenge their abilities," he said. Officials claim that damages from "grinding" cost the university thousands have helped to fund the Bob Carpenter Damage has occurred all over campus, of dollars per year to repair, some of which comes from tuition revenue. Center. Thorton said, including Smith Plaza, the Because of such accomplishments, fountain area between Smith and Purnell and state property, it is exempt from Newark's "I've been yelled at for just sitting on my he said, he takes pride in being a behind Memorial Hall. zoning laws. skateboard between class." member on the Board. "Grinders will be charged with "The university will be strict in enforcing He said he thinks police are too harsh on Carpenter III, who has held his destruction of property, and the courts will the law," Clifton said. "If there is damage, it skateboarders: position for 10 years, said his decide the proper course of action," will be enforced." "Police will harass you even if they just committee works hand in hand with the Thornton said. "Fines range from $25 on up, Senior Liam Campion, an employee at suspect yo,u have been grinding," he said. administration to carry out fund-raising or the court might order restitution." Switch skate shop on Haines Street, said he He said he does not think the university projects that benefit the university and, Clifton said it is important to note that the thinks the university is biased against will be able to enforce the ban. more importantly, the students. skateboarders. · "The sport's popularity has grown THE REVIEW/Andrew Mehan city of Newark already prohibits The committee's goal is to provide skateboarding on city sidewalks. "University Police will harass dramatically lately," he said. They're nor services for students in areas unrelated A new university policy will prevent going to be able to stop grinding." skateboarders from "grinding." However, he said, since the university is skateboarders for no reason," Campion said. to academics, such as athletics and Dining Services, he said. The committee also works to improve existing Student Life programs. Carpenter III said although his Jesse Jackson speaks to Del. Democrats family is fond of the university as a whole, they have always had a special interest in the athletic department BY STEVE RUBENSTEIN The upcoming election is of' great "Our candidates are fighting for working He said his father, R.R.M. (Bob) Senior News Editor importance to yoWiger voters, Jackson said, families and the kitchen-table values that are Carpenter Jr., for whom the Bob WILMINGTON - All 18-year-old and not only about securing Social Security so important," she said. Carpenter Center is named, held his citizens have the right to vote, but most of and Medicare for retired citizens. Carper, a candidate for Senate, gubernatorial position on the board for 45 years, until them don't even know it, Rev. Jesse Jackson "Subsidizing education and !owering candidate Lt. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner and his death 10 years ago. said Sunday during a speech at the college tuitions are [issues which will be] James Carney, a candidate for lieutenant Although Carpenter HI attended Settlement Association Building.