..., ...~!~ . -~ An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner / • = • THE • ~c·.. tiUiillt~ A guide to heavy metal, Women's basketball season Bl comes to an end, Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Pennit No. 26 FREE Volume 127. Issue 40 www.reriew.udd.edu Tuesdav,. !VIarch 20, 20()) Newark accident News leaves five dead anchor BY JILL LIEBOWITZ "The evidence at the scene Staff Reporter indicates that the impact occurred Delaware State Police have in the northbound lanes. released new information about " There are numerous gouge offers the two-vehicle accident that marks in the roadway which are killed five people on Otts Chapel indicative of an impact." Road Friday night. John Farrell, public Lt. Timothy Winstead gave the information officer for Aetna wisdom following account of the accident: Hose, Hook & Ladder Co., said A head-on collision between a the company had three BY STACEY CARLOUGH Jeep Cherokee and a Chrysler aq1bulances, two fire engines and Staff Reporter Lebaron occurred in the a rescue truck at the scene of the northbound lane of Otts Chapel accident. "Winners make things happen. Losers let them happen." , Road. "All six victims needed This bit of advice from Ukee Operated ~y James Galyen, 26, mechanical extrication," he said. Was hington, a news anchor at of Elkton, Md., the Jeep "Numerous hydraulic rescue tools KYW-TV3 in Philadelphia, was overturned after impact. Galyen were involved in the effort." just one of the many ideas was pronounced dead at the State Police also revealed on university students received after scene. Saturday that toxicology reports the 15th-annual Minority Career The four other victims riding in indicate that there was alcohol Development Conference. the Lebaron, Laura Kauffman, 17, involvement on the part of Hosted by the Career Services Chad Stein, 18, Shaun R. Loomis, Galyen, but not on the part of 16, all of Elkton, Md., and Aaron Kauffman. · Center, more than 70 black, Indian, Latino and Asian students Stahl, 15, of Newark, also died at The investigation into the attended the four-hour conference the scene. accident is continuing, Winstead Saturday in the Trabant The only survivor, Justin said. A team is attempting to University Center. Salapow, 15, is from Newark and figure out what happened to the Jack Townsend, director of was a passenger in the Lebaron. two Nehicles in the moments Career Services, said the goal of He was last listed in critical leading up to the crash. the conference was to inform condition at Christiana Hospital. "We know the final resting freshman and sophomore minority Winstead sa.id information places of the vehicles," he said. student? how to effectively use regarding his condition is not ''What the reconstruction team the university's resources to being released at the request of does is work backwards and prepare for the world of work. his parents. · attempt to place the' vehicles in "The best things students can "We spoke to the family position at the point of impact. do to get the most [out] of their [Monday], and they said his ''That will take several weeks four years here is to get involved ~-ond~~~n ~~i~provi~~:'~~~ ~ai_?.: > .... _jLQ~.)t.WQII~S ~~~~ _ -.. .:.__ with ex-tr'at:IH'rie'Ul&T-groups and Ill. sat The accident very ditilc\1 t ·to a<l<t\t10n~11sleaa a, - ill take advantage of WCJtk-related n.ow b.eheve. they know cope with for the victims' families offict~ls experiences, like internships, to the dtrectwns m wh1ch the two and friends Winstead said. test career interests," he said. vehicles were travelling. "We back at the scene w~re A highlight of the conference "We do have info~ation that twice [Monday]," he said. "On was a speech from Washington, would lead us to bebeve that the both occasions there were THE REVIEW/Christian Jackson the keynote speaker. Jeep was travelling southbound, numerous studen;s who came to On Wednesday evening, Brian Burke and Christoma Emig visit the site where a Jeep Cherokee Washington began his talk by and the Chrysler Lebaron was the scene to pay their respects." travelling northbound," he said. and a Chrysler Lebaron collided at approximately 9:30 Friday night, killing five people. asking the audience to repeat his mantra - "Today is the best day .of my life, and tomorrow's going to be even better." Students should be "winners" in their careers and in their lives, TUC he said. goes 'up in the club' He also said students should BY JEN BLENNER people, he said. 'There were a lot of people and everyone surround themselves with positive Student Affairs Editor Junior Stephanie Sneddon, publicity had a good time," she said. people. They should find what Comedy, poetry and music entertained chairwoman for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Senior Keith Richards said he thought the they love to do and do it; he said. approximately 300 students at "Up in the Student Union, said she learned about event was successful. "If you love what you do, Club" Friday night at the Trabant University Freedman at Wilmington' s Pridefest in "Steve Coleman brought it home and you'll never work a day in your Center. September. made it worth coming out for," he said. life," he said . " I 've been on The club explosion was composed of "He is one of the only gay performers in Freshman Kim Herrera said she came vacation for 21 years." musician Skott Freedman, comedians Rob the area," she said. with friends to hear the slam poet. Washington said that people Stapleton and Ruperto Vanderpool, slam Senior Traci Boddy, president of the "I have never heard [slam poetry] before," have to be willing to go after what poet Steve Coleman and Latin and hip-hop Cultural Programming Advisory Board, said she said. "It was different." they believe in. music. "Up in the Club" helped bring together Freshman Sugarr Hill said the program "If you see a crack in the door, Freedman, the first performer of the night, different groups of people. was sponsored by many groups and she don' t try and ease it open ," he played five songs on the piano, as audience "It helps bridge the gap between the wanted to come and support them. said. " Knock that door down." members chatted. different cultures on campus," she said. "It was a mix of everything," she said. Devona Williams, a university He said the event was good because it She said members of CPAB and the .. Senior Janna Zinzi said the event was the a lumna and founder of the was diverse, collaborative and spread unity. Black Student Union brought Stapleton to best thing to do on campus on Friday night. consulting and train i n g firm "I think it's a great venue, but I was the event because they heard about him in 'The slam poet was amazing," she said. Goeins-Williams Associates, also disappointed with the rudeness of the late February at the National Association of "He was the highlight of the program." offered advice to students at the audience," he said Campus Activities conference in Nashville. The event was co-sponsored by the conference. Stapleton hosted the events and warmed Senior Angelika Peacock, president of Student Center Programming Advisory Williams spoke a b out her up the audience with some jokes about BSU, said her organization also found out Board, CPAB, Delaware Undergraduate experiences at the university and audience members. about Coleman at the conference. Student Congress, Resident Student in the "real world" and handed out THE REVIEW/Chia Chen He said ther~ is a difference between She said it was a successful event because Association, BSU, Hispanic Organization of copies of her " 12 Simple Lessons Slam poet Steve Coleman was one of several entertainers performing at clubs and universities. the entertainment for all brought people Latin Americans and LGBSU. for a Successful Life." who perfonned at ''Up in the Oub" Friday night. At the clubs he uses more prepared together. material and for colleges he picks on more see MINORITY page A6 Face-lift planned for South College BY CRAIG SHERMAN issues students, landlords, the university in Veness' class, Social Geography Staff Reporter and the City of Newark had with the (GEOG 310). Homes on South College A venue will area. " We' ll get help fro m landlords, get a face-lift in May, due largely to the "The surveys were done totally by tenants, future tenants, as well as help efforts of a university geo g raphy students who went to find out what kind from the volunteers on campus and from professor. of views people had when looking for the city," he said. For the last three years, professor property," he said. Veness said she cannot predict this April Veness h as conducted surveys " Last semester we also questioned early in the project how much the clean examining residential areas of Newark stude nts on what they be lieved were up will cost the university. and off-campus student housing. ideal ne ighbors, te nants, housing and Phillips said he interviewed Jeremy Phillips, a graduate student what can be done to improve each of the homeowners to see if there is a sense of working on the project, said the clean up topics." community on South College A venue. If will include planting trees and flowers Phillips said he sees South College not, h e ask e d , would their opinions and trimming shrubbery . He said several Avenue as the gateway to the university change if there were improvem ents hou ses will be pa inted and e~cess iv e and wants to show the city of Newark made by the landlords? pieces of trash will be removed.