Seven Injured at Villanova After Game
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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner THE Mosaic celebrates 75 Football clinches years of the Mouse, conference title, Bl Cl 250 University Center University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 Thesday & Friday • • FREE Seven injured at Villanova after game BY JON DEAKINS seven injured were transported to local Villanova University's Communication Chris Edwards, to come out of the lock The nursing student then ran over to Assistant Sports Editor hospitals with non-life threatening and Public Relations Department, er room. help the wounded scattered in the street Seven people were injured after the injuries. AJI four were released by early described the situation as a total accident "l wasn't even paying attention," when she looked up and saw her older Delaware-Villanova football game Sunday morning. with no criminal intent. she said, "when all of the sudden I was brother Matt in handcuffs. Saturday night when a driver lost control Lazor could not be reached for com Andrianopoulos conftrmed alcohol shoved into the grass." "The police thought he was trying to of his vehicle and drove into a crowd of ment. was not a factor, but police are currently Edwards said she was one of at least attack the driver," she said, "but he was approximately 100 fans in the Villanova According to Delaware assistant investigating the health of Lazor and any three people who Post pushed out of the the one who actually ran down and Stadium parking lot, police said. team manager senior Jennifer Jones, one possible mechanical problems his car path of the moving vehicle. turned off the engine. It was all a big The Blue Hens' jubilant celebration of the four injured was Bonnie Wharton, might have undergone. "Thank God for Missy," she said. misunderstanding and a really sad way to quickly turned to utter chaos as· mother of Delaware sophomore long She said no arrests have been made "If it wasn't for her I'd be under that end the night." Villanova team chaplai n, the Rev. snapper Brett Wharton. as a result of the accident itself. car." Post said when she questioned the Bernard A. Lazor, 78, unexplainably lost Bonnie Wharton is also a university However, junior Melissa Post said Post, whose father played football officer, she was detained too, and had to control of his Ford Taurus just outside of -employed bus driver in the transporta she was handcuffed and detained in a for Delaware in the '70s, said she was wait until midnight in the police station. the team locker rooms where a crowd of tion services department. police vehicle during the commotion, waiting with the crowd when she began Edwards said she could not under family and friends were awaiting the Delaware head coach K.C. Keeler something that puzzled some eyewit to hear banging noises. stand why the ·police were detaining arrival of the athletes. confirmed this report on Sunday and said nesses. "People were bouncing off the car," Post. Alexis Andrianopoulos, public from what he knows, "she is going to be Debbie Edwards of Wallingford, she said, "and everyone was screaming. "They really treated her badly," she information and telecommunications all right." Pa., said she was standing in the middle They said he was honking his horn, but I said. "She didn't deserve that. She is a officer of Radnor Police, said four of the Barbara K. Clement, the head of of the street waiting for her ·son, junior never heard it." hero." FieldHouse City halts all hosts Olympics rental permits BY ALICIA NICHOLS tive role in the athletes' lives as BYERlN FOGG the illegal distinction of marital Staff Reporter well as for its influence on the Managing Neuis Editor status. Enthusiasm and comradery volunteers, who join teams as Newark City Council mem "Students tend to have a little fiJied the Delaware Field House unified partners to provide extra ' bers unanimously passed a tem more fun than other residents," Saturday as more than 500 ath support to the members. porary moratorium on all new Godwin said, "and that fun letes with special needs partici "There are two things that rental permits at an emergency equates to misbehavior and keep pated in the Special Olympics happen," he said. "One is the meeting Thursday night. ing the town awake all night." Fall Sports Festival. achievement for the individual This move came three days City Councilman Karl Athletes showed determi athlete, but the other part is for nation as they competed with the unified partner. They learn after the Chancery Court of the Kalbacher, 3rd District, said the friends and teammates in soccer, that kids with disabilities are State of. Delaware placed an moratorium should not be seen as bocce, volleyball and distance just like everyone else. They injunction on two city ordinances a hasty, severe move. running. like sports, they try, they run that illegally restricted the num "The actions tonight are tak Colors of the athlete's jer- and they can be part of a team." ber of homes that can be reined to ing a pause," he said. "We need to - seys flashed in the excitement of Heather Hirshman, Special students. ensure the safety of our resi the events as players threw Olympics public relations direc Council members, worried dents." themselves into the competition tor, said the annual fall competi the injunction would· bring an Kalbacher said the moratori of the game. tion features four of the 16 influx of people applying for um on new rental permits would Athlete Diana Santow sports Special Olympics offer rental permits, decided a morato not likely affect property owners' smiled in her teal Crusaders jer throughout the year. rium, set to expir;e Jan. 19, 2004, ability to generate income. sey when her father praised her Athletes are recruited was necessary to control the situ "We do not believe this will for scoring a goal in her first through schools and communi game. ty-based outreach programs, she ation. have a significant adverse eco Between giggles she said said. The emergency legislation nomic impact on anyone," he she enjoys playing soccer and "We have. over 80 training stated a temporary moratorium on said. was confident her team would programs throughout the state," new rental permits "will permit Robert Bruner, a member of win their next game. Hirshman said. "Our athletes the council to hear from the citi the Newark Landlord She paused to consider her train and compete locally and zens of Newark and conclude its Association, the organization that favorite position on the field. then they are invited [here]." deliberations on the subject in an filed the original lawsuit against "I like being goalie," she The university has hosted orderly and required fashion and the city in Chancery Court, said a said. the festival at the Field House without further exacerbation fellow landlord e-mailed him The events were twice as for the past three years, she said. being caused by the issuance of about the emergency council important for parent Tom Saturday's event was sponsored unrestricted numbers of new meeting. Moore, who watched both of his by JP Morgan Chase, Aramark rental permits." "I heard about this and I daughters, Victoria and Colleen, and PM Realty. play soccer. Athletes participate in Mayor Harold Godwin said came right up here," he said. With the arrival of the big Special Olympics activities THE REVIEW/Bridget Callahan there have been three rental per Bruner said he was issued day, the girls could finally show throughout their lives, Athletes pose for a picture at the Special Olympics Fall nuts issued since the Chancery the last rental pern1 it at 4:58 p.m., off the skills learned in their Hirshman said. The minimum Court imposed the injunction. two minutes shy of the deadline. Sunday afternoon practices with age required to participate is 8 Sports Festival at the Field House Saturday. The uni 'That shows there is a pur He said he has been making coach Mom. years old but there is no upper versity has hosted the event for the past three years. suit among some in ewark to repairs to a house he owns on "They were very excited," age limit. obtain rental permits," he said. Prospect Avenue and was plan he said. "This morning they Parent Bob Cordrey said action, he said. Between all the uine dedication in Delaware to City Manager Carl Luft said ning on buying a rental permit in were all ready. They had all of his daughter Kaci, 18, who sports she plays, she practices the cause. the council inferred from the the near future. If he had not been their gear, their shin pads, plays basketball, bowling and multiple times a week. "The kids live for this," he number of recent rental permits informed about the meeting, he everything." soccer, stays busy year round Cordrey said the large num said. "I think she's got a better that approximately 20 new per would have had to wait nearly Moore said he credits the thanks to the Special Olympics. ber of volunteers never ceases to life than most kids that aren't mits would be applied for per two months to get the .permit Special Olympics for its posi- Kaci is always ready for amaze him and shows the gen- handicapped." month if the moratorium was not because of the moratorium. imposed. M. Edward Danberg, attor Godwin said the moratorium ney for the NLA, said the council will ensure control of rental per members' decision to pass the mits until the council can vote on moratorium, especially with such new ordinances to replace the leg little notice to residents, was Ghana·official sees a new Africa islation that was deemed invalid.