An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner TUESDAY April 21, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 46 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 ex Professor founds women's shelter event BY DAWN E. MENSCH donate to the cause and find a home to Copy Editor open for single mothers. Amber had nowhere else to go. Last Sherif said she was surprised at the January, after she and her 13-month-dd opposition she encountered. daughter, Christina, had been kicked 'We tried to open the ftrst home in a halted out of the shelter where they were residential area," she said, "but people stayi ng, the future of the 18-year-old protested against it, saying it would BY ALICE THIERMAN mother and her daughter looked bleak. bring drugs to the neighborhood." Scaff Reponer Then she found the Cradle of Hope, She said she found the bigotry A car smash sponsored by a a non-profit organization that provides directed at pregnant teenagers upsetting. fraternity was halted by Public Safety temporary shelter to young single 'There were people who thought the officers Friday when a gasoline leak mothers and their children. girls didn' t deserve the house because caused by the whacks of In the four months since she moved they had gotten pregnant." sledgehammers risked an explosion. in, Amber has turned her life around. When they sentence a teen-ager to The car, donated by Ewing She is starting a new job and learning live on the street, Sherif said, they are Towing Service, was fully functional life and parenting skills, as well as sending the baby with her. and contained oil and gas. studying for her General Education Only two years ago. Amber was Capt. James Flatley of Public Diploma. relying on friends for places to stay, Safety said officers responded to a ''It's kind of hard working on it with never quite sure where she would end call and stopped the car smash on a baby running around," she said as she up next. Harrington Beach at 5:24 p.m., an picked up her child. Unable to go home because of hour-and-a-half after it had started. The home opened in Glenside, Pa., family problems, Amber ended up The smash, a fund-raiser sponsored last November. It came about after 18 stayi ng with an aunt in New Jersey. by Theta Chi, was set to continue months of hard work by a group of Soon after she moved in. she found out until 7. people who wanted to help. she was pregnant. "(The danger] was reponed by one Among that group was Bahira "I was scared to tell [my aunt] so I of our student aides," Flatley said. "A Sherif, an individual and family studies had the doctor do it," she said, knowing fire marshal from the safety office professor at the university. her aunt would disapprove and she responded with two officers. "It was surprising to see how many would have to leave again. "The car was towed away and that people need to work together to get a The women can live in the home for was that." THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill simple project started," she said. three months to a year. By the end of But the fraternity will be expected Four Theta Chi members stand by the smashed car as it gets towed because of leaking gasoline. She was approached about the idea thi s time period, the goal is that they to pay for repairing the damage to by the mother of one of her students at will have learned how to take care of Harrington Beach due to the glass "If I would have known that they squarely on all four tires until it was "It has [registration] tags and it William Penn Charter School, where themselves and their children. and flammable materials. said Chris were going to be causing this much towed away. runs," Patterson said. "It's better than she taught before coming to the " It is ki nd of scary knowing that I Maradie, a Theta Chi member. damage, I would have made sure that Another employee of Ewing my car." university. Being interested in fami ly will be out on my own," Amber said. Maradie places the bulk of blame the car was empty," Ewing said. Towing said the car had been donated The short-lived smash- fest was and women's issues, she saw the project Sherif said she knows Amber will be on Ewing Towing Service. Students who participated in the in good faith and that the towing still a success, Maradie said, raising as a practical way to use her education. all right. " [Ewing] knew exactly what we car smash paid $1 for three hits to the company had donated the car because about $200. "As an academic, you shouldn't just "From January to now, she has were doing with the car," Maradie car with a full-size sledgehammer. it was for the university. "We still had a good time," be writing papers," she said. "In the become so serious," she said. "Amber is said. The car was hit approximately 600 Matt Patterson, president of the Maradie said. end, knowledge is only useful if you a success story." "We were afraid that the sparks times. fraternity , said the main purpose of He said the unfortun ate ending to can apply it." Amber and Lisa, the other woman from the sledgehammer hitting the Ewing said other cars had been the fund-raiser was to have fun. "It's the car smash may have been a Sherif said a recent study concluded li ving at Cradle of Hope, are car would ignite [the gasoline]." donated to various student groups for a good time, and we're raising some blessing in disguise because that eacli year 43 of every 1,000 girls in responsible for cooking and cleaning Flatley sa1d the fraternity had this purpose, and the flammable " "fii'Oiley'"for multiple sClerosis. immediately after the car wastowed Delaware between. 15 and 17 years old ­ the home. Volunt-eer.s from Beaver get pregnant. The national-average is College and the surrounding ordered a car without oil or gas so t'luids had always been removed. ''We were expecting the car to not away, the rain came. 37.6 per 1,000 teenagers of the same community come to the home to help they could smash it , but that wasn't "I assumed that they were going to have an engine or windows, but they The fraternity had set up a large what they received. be smashing up the car," Ewing said. brought us this." amount of stereo equipment, which age group. watch Christina and Lisa's daughter, However, Kevin Ewing, owner of "The car would have had to be The car was s o normal that would have been ruined in the rain. These statistics are much higher than Brianna, when the mothers are busy Ewing Towing Service, said the flipped over to get at the gas tank. I Patterson said he was worried about a Maradie said Theta Chi is in other industrialized countries and working. fraternity members did not tell him couldn' t have expected that." student running out of the dorms expecting to get a bi II from the Sherif said she is interested in studying Sherif said the generosity of people exactly what they were doing with Maradie said that to his screaming, "What are you doing to university to repair the damage to the why that is the ca~e. often surprises the mothers, who aren't Working wi" a team of six people, the car. knowledge, the car remained my car!" beach. she set out tc find others willing to see SHELTER page A5 Grossberg's doctor subpoenaed BY VERONICA FRAATZ disposing of the body in a Dumpster wrote in the documentation that UD 11th most-wired school Cit) NewJ Editor behind the motel. Grossberg had "made active efforts WILMINGTON - Amy S. Grossberg' s former boyfriend and to conceal her pregnancy from BY BETSY LOWTHER "We really focused on ways in which schools used Grossberg' s claim that she was not the baby's father, Brian C. Peterson personnel" at the Pediatric Center. Administrative News Ediwr their Internet system," Pinck said. '·What was available aware she was pregnant may come Jr., pleaded guilt y to manslaughter Grossberg's defense team, JohnS. Computer users across campus are now logging on to a and what people were doing with it was important." under fire now that state prosecutors on March 9. He has agreed to testify Malik, Robert K. Tanenbaum and nationally recognized technology system. Dartmouth Coll ege, the top-ranked school, offers assert she lied about her pregnancy in Grossberg's trial, which begins Jack L. Gruenstein contest the The uni versity has been ranked lith in "America's 100 Internet accessibility in the dining halls, said Bill Brawley when she saw her doctor four months May 4. Both Grossberg and Peterson doctor's subpoena, claiming it would M ost Wired Colleges" in the May issue of Yahoo' of computer services for the school. before her baby was born, according are free on $300,000 bail and live at violate the doctor-patient Internet Life magazine. Another feature of Dartmouth's system is Blitzmail, an to court documents filed Friday. their respective homes with their relationship. The ranking puts the university 's computing system e-mail appli cation that allows students to easily send According to Grossberg's medical parents in New Jersey.