News Sports See what went on in Gabby makes her young J amin at the football and Newark during Winter adult debut track scenes See page A2 See page Bl See page BJO An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Non-Profit Org. ~Review Online U.S. Postage Paid www. review. itdel.edu Newark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center + University of Delaware + Newark, DE 19716 Tuesday· Volume 125, Number 30 February 9, 1999 Professorship dedicated to Redding BY CHRISTINA MEHRA graduate students, faculty and staff in the in law and public policy," he aid. $100,000 has already been raised. The res t Atlminisr rari~ ·e News Editor graduate School of Urban Affairs and Other professors teach about public of the money wil l be ra ised through a Louis L. Redding, the man credited with Public Policy. The chair will also work policy issues, Rich said, but none campaign. desegregating the university, wi ll now have with undergraduate students in the College specifically in law and public policy. Assistant director o f university a $1 million endowed professorship named of Human Resources, Education and Public The professor would be expected to do development David Garret, who is running after him. Policy. more with the wider community, giving the campaign, said the first $ 100,000 came The Louis L. Redding Chair for the "Normally, we don't specify fields that l ectures and working with the bar mostly from lawyers on the Delaware State Study of Law and Public Policy, honoring they are working in but the Redding chair association, Rich said. Some of the Bar Association. the civil rights leader ' w ho died in has specific fields to work with," Raffel endowment has already been set aside to Garrett is now distributing brochures September, will teach the impact of the law said. fund a lecture series. about Redding and the new position in the on public policy and social change which The Redding chair will teach students At the beginning of January , the hopes of getting checks from more donors. Redding' s life work focused on. about the impact of the law and its ability univers ity renamed the President' s He said there is still more money to raise, Redding, the first African-American to change public policy and society. Diversity Award the Louis L. Redding but he is confident the goal will be reached lawyer admitted to the Delaware Bar, spent In addition to teaching, the chair will Diversity Award. because many people have shown interest most of his life battling for civil rights and have re sponsibilities outside the university, President' David P . Roselle said the and support so far. desegregation. including projects and resear.c h for university is pleased about the new "I was a lawyer downtown for 34 years Jeffery. Raffel, director of the School of government and community organizations. position. so I know a lot of people," Garrett said. Louis L. Redding Urban Affairs and Public Policy, said the The new position will also require the " All concerned were agreeable, and "Our target is no later than June 30." place, there will be a nationwide search for new position was created because of c hair to hold an annual conference to those of us at the university were delighted The entire endowment will be used for the first occupant of the Redding chair. The interest from within the university as well indu.ce discussion about r ac ial issues, by the prospect of being able to have a programs run by the chair and maybe for usual process is for the search committee to as outside. diversity, laws and public policy. li vi ng memorial to an individual who was supplementing the professor' s salary , reco mmend to the dean and the dean, to "The Redding family and friends were Dean of the School of Urban Affairs and so important to the history of our Garrett said. The university will pay the recommend to the provost." looking for a way to honor Redding, and Public Policy Daniel Rich said the position institution," Roselle stated in an e-mail professor's base salary which will be A current university professor or another our school made a proposal,'' he said. will be unique within the school. message. determined by experience. qualified applicant may fill the Redding' The Redding chair will work with "We don' t currently have a professorship Of the $1 million for the endowment, Roselle said, " After the funding is in professorship, Roselle said. Man arrested for cocaine BY RYAN CORMIER . commission of a felony and two counts of cocaine with intent to deliver and driving: Editor in Chief carrying a concealed deadly weapon. under the influence of alcohol. - After the arrest of a 22-year-old Sheehan was unable to post $32,000 Police said Sheehan did not resist' Newark man early Saturday. morning for bail and is currently being held at Gander arrest. drunk driving, Newark Police said they Hill Prison in Wilmington. Farrall said an arrest like Sheehan' s uncovered about eight grams of powdered After the stop, Sheehan was asked does not happen very often in Newark. · cocaine and a loaded .38-caliber revolver - whether there was anything in the car "It's an occasional occurrence," he in tl)e console of the man's truck. which the officers should be concerned said. "It' s just a normal DUI stop and then Qavid. A. Sheehan, of the 500 block of about, and he answered "no," Newark they located the drugs." Hanna Drive, was stopped by police at Police Officer Mark Farrall said. FarraH said he has not seen an increase 2:20 a.m. on New London Road. Police "The vehicle was later searched and a in the arrests fo r cocaine in Newark in said the subsequent search also netted a loaded revolver and six baggies of cocaine recent months. folding knife and a pair of brass knuckles was found," FarraH said. "Newark is definitely a trouble spot for found in the man's waistband. Sh.eehan was also charged with heroin," he said, "but I haven't seen any Sheehan is charged with trafficking maintaining his 1991 Isuzu Rodeo with kind of rise in cocaine or any other drugs cocaine, possessing a firearm during the intent to deliver the drugs, possessing like that." Newark PDbusts two liquor retailers BY JESSICA COHEN Ciry News Editor The state's Division of Alcohol Beverage Control's latest undercover sting resulted in arrests at two more local liquor stores Thursday. Sejal Patel, 26, of Newark Discount Liquors, in Newark Shopping Center and Saradkumar Patel, 45, of 896 Liquors, THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill 1017 S . College Ave. failed to ask The state's Division of Alcohol Beverage Control arrested an employee cooperating teen-age witnesses for identification, officials said, and were at Newark Discount Liquors in Newark Shopping Center who failed to THE REV LEW/ Bob Weill subsequently charged with selling ask teen-age witnesses for identification. Freshman Joe Meyer buys the last two tickets available Monday for the Chris alcohol to minor's. Rock show at the Bob Carpenter Center Feb. 21. Vicki Scott, supervisor of the Both stores also face additional age wi tnesses who were w ired with previous convictions for underage university's Box Office, said more than 4,000 tickets were sold for the Rock charges from Newark Police and the equipment to record the illegal sales. consumption. show. "In my two years here, I've never seen anything like this," she said. The DABC. The teens participated in the Underage Deputy Director of the DABC John Box Office will be selling additional seats this morning. Police said they arrested the clerks Cooperating Witness program as a form with the help of three cooperating teen- of community service to avoid fines for see POLICE page A4 Geography professor spotlights cause for city's troubles BY UNA HASHEM students called police, city officials, fonnations. The places geographers she had taught for two years and had Copy Etlitor residents and Dean of Students st ud y don't have to be on a grand just begun to feel at home, she said. It ' s nothing new to hear that Timothy F. Brooks. Their digging scale, she said. "The only way I was goin g to lift st ud ents renting homes off campus earned them a li st of the locations of Veness specializes in social my spirits was to go out and do some are a nuisance to otherwise tranquil noise, alcohol and disorderly geogra phy, which looks at how field work ," she said . Newark neighborhoods. conduct violations in 1996, and different social groups such as races, Studying the idea of home was a To find o ut if that label is another list identifying houses with genders and classes define and use natural choice. justified, geography professor April rental permits. space. She started by talking to homele s Veness has begun research that has Veness said the results the class "What makes this [rental cap people about what makes a location made her an active figure in town found did not show a clear pattern of debate] fascinating for me as a a home. meetings and an advocate for fairer violations occurring in geographer," she said, "is that it' s all "If I put up a tent in a drainage rental policies. neighborhoods where students live. about geography - the geography ditch. can [ call th at a home'l" she In the fall of 1997, Veness and the Many of the violations occurred of who gets to live where, how they asked.