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... ., ., -·. Co~mentary: tering the world of Men's lacrosse of to 3-1 Partying like it's 2012 Chatroulette start See page 15 Seepage 19 Seepage 28 · Check out the Web site for Tuesday, March 2, 2010 breakin news and more. Volume 137, Issue 18 Three UD students Poverty comes robbed by close to home guntnen on Main Street BY ERICA COHEN BY ELISA LALA Student Affairs Editor Managiing News Editor Jerry White, 19, and John Hamel, Three university students were 46, sit side-by-side at a folding tab1e robbed Thursday after two masked in the rear room of the Newark Unit gunmen burst into their apartment ed Methodist Church on Main Street. and tied them up. John is eating Ramen noodles out of At7:15 p.m. the suspects, armed a Styrofoam bowl and Jerry is read with handguns, entered a Main Street ing a book that he borrowed from the Courtyard apartment at 329 E. Main Newark Public Library. Street, Newark police said, The church, settled between The suspects, once inside, tied California Tortilla and Grassroots up .the three victims and began to Handmade Crafts on Main Street, Residents comb through the damage caused by a fire on Haines Street Saturday night. search the apartment leaving with provides the facility, free of charge, cell phones and money. None of the to the Newark Empowerment Cen three male victims, ages 20 and 21 , ter - a non-profit organization that were harmed, police spokesman Lt. provides food, clothing, financial as Brian Henry said. sistance and shelter to people living Fire engulfs student apartment .he suspects, throughout the in poverty. White and Hamel are both time pent in the apartment, contin homeless. ued to ask the victims what apart The center is one of 12 branches Candle sparks blaze in University Commons Saturday night ment number they were in, as if the operated and staffed by The Friend rived, there were flames billowing out of the sec suspects had made an error. BY~ CLARK& KATIE RIMPFEL ship House, a nonprofit organization ond-story window of 131 Haines St., and threaten- "What we find in almost all committed to helping the homeless The Review ing the apartment next door, he said. • home invasions is there's some type population of New Castle. Accord Flames broke out in the University Commons The fire was under control by 11:05 p.m., Far of drug connection," Henry said. ing to its Web site, they believe ''the townhouses late Saturday night, gutting one unit rell said. More than 60 firefighters from five com "In this one they looked around and • homeless are the people that nobody and damaging another. · panies helped extinguish the blaze. didn't find what they thought they catches." So they have held their Ed Sobolewski, the owner of the Haines Street "What was burning upon arrival was quickly were going to find." • hands out. property, said he was told the fire was caused by a Henry believes the suspects did candle, but the fire marshal has yet to make an of contained, and after we arrived the fire did not The center opens its doors from progress any further," he said. not mean to rob that apartment but 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. as a sanctuary for the ficial ruling. Farrell said the second floor of 131 Haines St. were trying to find another apart homeless, giving them access to clean The blaze began shortly before 11 p.m., said sustained extensive damage and the first floor suf- ment with drugs or drug money. John H. Farrell IV, spokesman for the Aetna Hose,. He believes this is why only a Hook and Ladder Company. When firefighters ar- · See FIRE page 13 See POVERTY page 12 See ROBBERY page 11 Weather Underground founder visits UD Bill Ayers, controversial '70s radical, discusses education inequality 1970s radical. BY JOSH SHANNO~ .and MARINA KOREN The Review Forty years ago, Ayers helped found the radical group Weather Underground, which was Bill Ayers, the controversial professor ~hose responsible for a series of bombings around the · alleged ties to Barack Obama drew fire during country in protest of the Vfetnam War. He now the 2008 election, spoke to a group of education teaches education at the University of Illinois at professors at the university on Wednesday. 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"I had a bike sto The university is plamiing to spend nearly . watching the cameras, but the plans for the loca len last semester and I would have loved to have $1 million to expand and improve its campus tion of the monitoring systems are not yet com- a camera there." wide security camera system by installing smart plete, Homiak said. · Meninger also expressed his concerns about technology cameras as part of a larger plan to This technology has been used in several how the university will be using the new technol make students and employees safer, said Albert other college campuses and cities around the . ogy and whether its intentions will be put to use Homiak, executive director of Campus and Pub country. detecting serious crime such as theft, muggings lic Safety. Public Safety officials, including Homiak, and vandalism, as opposed to catching students Officials are adding cameras to more than have visited several of these locations, which for underage drinking. 12 locations on and around campus. There are ·include Johns Hopkins University, University of "The cameras are not meant to be a big broth already more than 200 security cameras on cam Maryland, University of Pennsylvania and the er by any means," Homiak said.