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Brooks said. meeting Sunday night, said University Police do not suspect Ferrell's death really hit home with stolen lingerie in foul play in the "apparent suicide," many fraternity members. but they will investigate, Capt Jim "People generally questioned each case why it had to happen. Shawn did Flatley said By Lori Atkins Ferrell was taken directly to the not show any signs. It was a City News Editor State Medical Examiner's office in pointless death and we're all Wilmington, where the examiner working out our own feelings A Newark man was charged will determine the cause of death about it" Friday with 34 counts of burglaries Sue Greenzang, assistant area today. and thefts from women students' Eric Huffman (AS 92), a Gilbert coordinator for Gilbert, said: "I apartments, in which the common C resident assistant who talked think people are expressing theme was stolen women's with Ferrell Saturday night, said, themselves and their feelings. They underwear or lingerie, N ewark "He was a pleasant person and are going through the normal Police said. everybody liked him. grieving process and they are Donald W. Maxwell Jr., 35, of learning to lean on each other." "It sounds cliche, but he was Quincy Drive, was arraigned Friday someone you never thought would The public visitation will be in Magistrate Court 18 for 17 do something like this." Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. burglaries 14 felony and three About 60 Gilbert C residents, at Chandler's Funeral Home at misdemeanor thefts. His bond was Ferrell's Zeta Beta Tau fraternity 2506 Concord Pike. The funeral setat$31,000. brothers, Office of Housing and will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Maxwell was already being held Residence Life staff and friends the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Gander Hill State Prison on church at Shipley Road and met with counselors from the charges of trespassing, possession Student Counseling Center Sunday Baynard Boulevard. of marijuana, criminal mischief and night. -Richelle Perrone two counts of felony theft filed against him April l. He was traced to 17 burglaries of Newark aparunents including Park Place, Towne Court, Paper Mill, Director beats felony drug charge West Knoll and Victoria Mews between April I, 1989, and April 1, By Robert Weston issued a warrant for their arrest on marijuana 1990, Lt. Alex von Koch said Staff Reporter He, wife convicted of marijuana misdemeanor charges March 23 . Friday. Jackson said: "There was never any In each case, underwear was A Maryland district court judge convicted a fines and court costs, he said. President E. A. Trabant said a decision about implication or suspicion they have ever missing from the apartments, von university professional staff member and his ln return for a guilty plea to the possession Meisel's university employment will be made consumed marijuana with anyone else. It was Koch said. The burglar would wife on charges of possession of marijuana charge, the state's attorney agreed to drop the within the next few days. done in the privacy of their own home. sometimes leave underwear from a Friday, their lawyer said Sunday. charge of manufacturing marijuana, Jackson Police, acting on a tip from an air "This is obviously something that [the previous burglary in an apartment. C. Julius Meisel, director of the OffiCe of said. conditioning repainnan who saw the marijuana Meisels) wish had never occurred," he said. He entered through sliding glass Teacher Recruitment, and his wife Mary pled Manufacturing marijuana is a felony. If the plants in the Meisel's home, obtained a search "That is why the state of Maryland decided to doors or unsecured windows. The: guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession Meisels had been convicted, they could have and seizure warrant March 21. resolve the case the way it did. burglar usually caused little or no· of marijuana and were given a six-month been sentenced to five years in jail and fined Police found 41 growing marijuana plants "I hope the powers that be at the university damage, he said. suspended sentence, two yearS' probation and $15,000. and two bags of processed marijuana in the will see fit to allow Dr. Meisel to go on with Police obtained a warrant and: 40 hours of community service work at a drug The university suspended Meisel from his Meisels' basement. his life and resume his career," he said. searched Maxwell's apartment April: treatment program, said Richard Jackson, their job in March in the College of Education until The Meisels turned themselves in to Meisel declined an interview, but said, "I lawyer. They were also ordered to pay $250 in the courts resolved the case. Maryland State Police March 27 after police would just like to get on with my life." see ARREST page 8~ Bus route to change schedule next year RSA members ride, evaluate present loops By Susan Coulby Staff Reporter Public Safety will combine two bus loops next year and plans to make other changes in response to information gathered by the Students for Better Buses committees. Loop 5 will be combined with Loop 3, which includes stops at, Towne Court Apartments and Christiana Towers, according to Randy Risser (AG 91), Resident Student Association (RSA) vice president. Public SafetY might omit the Brookhaven and Kirkwood Highway stops from Loop 5, which includes Delaware Field House and Paper Mill Apartments. Risser said night routes will not be altered. RSA formed the committee in March to make the bus system more efficient · · The committee's research shows 'that the university needs to change class or bus schedules to make the transit system more predictable and see RSA page 8 '· ·'l -'• ."t z~ THE RI!VIEW• April24, 1990 By Chrlatlna Gimbel Virgil Holmes, from the WXDR's ttansmiuer on top d Staff Reporter Delaware Natural Resources : the Christiana East Tower went Council, spoke about the : into overload at 5:40 a.m. Before the sun reached its zenidl, importance of slowing depletion of : Thursday, putting the station the North Central Campus Mall the state's wetlands. : temporarily off the air, Chief came to life. Volunteers showed children a : Engineer for WXDR Richard J. Tables, chairs, recycling bins, variety of projects, ranging from : McGuire said. even portable toilets were carted in. origami - the Japanese art of : · George Whitmyre Jr., Students sporting the now folding pape.r into various forms - ; laboratory coordinator for the familiar Earth Day T~shirts to pine-cone bird feeders and crafts : department of chemical descended upon the Mall fa- Earth made of non-recyclable ttash. : engineering, said the temperature Fest 1990, the second Earth Day In the children's comer behind : of the transmitter must have celebration in as many decades. Brown and Sypherd Halls, one : reached about 750 degrees Long-haired students, short child yelled to another, "Wanna ; Fahrenheit to melt its insulator. haired students, parents, siblings, come play with us?" - which is . 1bere was never any danger to townspeople - there was no what all of the people behind the ; the students in the Christiana differentiation between "us" and tables seemed to say as child after : East Tower, McGuire said, "them." It was just a bunch of child went to the corner to learn : l>e cause the transmitter has Earthlings out to learn how to save environmentally-safe arts and : o-verload sensors which their planet. crafts. ; automatically shut off the power. Tables from several Children signed and decorated : • Susan Boeclden (NU 90), who organizations including The League an "art mural," a paper-covered : liVes in the room direCtly below of Women Voters, White Clay wall sepaniting the area behind : the transmitter, said her room Watershed Association, Delaware Brown Hall from South College : was extremely hot Thursday, Nature Society and Delaware Avenue. Children could adopt a tree : which was unusual because the Audubon Society displayed stacks during three presentations about : thermostat had not been turned of pamphlets, information sheets, tree planting and care. After the :up. buttons and books. The Student discussion, each child was given a : - McGuire said: "There was no Coalition for Animal Rights sapling to take home and planl : evidence of fire, just a lot of explained procedures used in er · The Office of Housing and : smoke. It really stunk." animal testing and food farming. community vegetarians explain the advantages of eating 'lower on the food chain.' It takes 2,500 Residence Life, the Newark Food · Dust on the surface of the Newark Food Coop distributed · gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. Coop, the Office of the President : plate blocker's insulator probably nutritional information and and a portion of the Student : acted as a bridge for the explained methods and reasons for director of Housing and Residence our parents," Biden said.