Udr 124 46.Pdf
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.
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