News Mosaic Sports The latest addition to Phone psychics full­ Hoyas snap Hens 11-game Newark's finest fledged phonies win streak, 16-9 See page A4 See page Bl BJO An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • Non-Profit Org. ~Review Online • THE U.S. Postage Paid www.review. udel.edu Newark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Friday Volume 125, Number -'6 April 16, 1999 Incumbents Trial testimony clean up in for Flagg begins BY JESSICA tOHEN AND courtroom, surrounded by her APRIL CAPOCHINO family and friends. City News Editors Ropp warned the jury the city election WILMINGTON The defense would attempt to prove capital murder trial began Flagg was legally insane at the Tuesday for Donald A. Flagg, time the murder was committed who is pleading not guilty by and during the subsequent BY APRIL CAPOCHINO .in District 4 , by a vote of 211 to reason of insanity to the murder kidnapping of Debra. He told City N eM'S Ed; tor 115 , said he was "real pleased" with of Anthony J. Puglisi and the the jury not to be sidetracked Jerry Clifton, Thomas Wampler his win and the number of people rape and kidnapping of his and to remember that Flagg \had and John Farrell IV, the incumbents who voted. wife, Debra. confessed to the crimes he was in the Newark City Council " I thought the turnout for the Flagg, a 41-year-old former charged with . elections, won by considerable elections was much better than last Chrysler worker, admitted to Flagg's lead defense attorney margins Tuesday night. time," he said. breaking into the Puglisis ' J. Brendan O'Neill agreed that Wampler, who beat Dan Beaver He said he plans to vote for the home in Academy Hills last Flagg was guilty of the crimes, Lower Marion version of the rental April, shooting and killing but added that his client was plan, which was recently discussed Anthony and kidnapping Debra suffering from paranoid in a Planning Commission meeting. for four days. · schizophrenia that affected his " People are much more The Puglisis son, Michael, is judgement to realize the comfortable with the revised [rental a junior at the university. wrongfulness of his actions. plan]," he said. "I will vote for that During opening statements, O ' Nei ll said the defense one as opposed to the original one lead prosecutor James B. Ropp would be able to show evidence only because people prefer it." reiterated tO the jury the details of this condition through the He said he also wants to focus on THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill of the murder, kidnapping and testimony of Debra and their own traffic issues in the city by taking a Debra Puglisi makes her way to the courthouse Monday for the rape committed by Flagg while "closer look" at the intersection beginning of the Flagg murder trial. Debra listened in the see TESTIMONY page AIO near the Deer Park Tavern. Beaver, who was visibly upset by the loss, said he was concerned about the future of the city and thought Wampler ran a negative campaign. NPD makes four heroin arrests "Thomas Wampler is proud of hi h'llrred'10ward UD students," BY APRIL CAPOCHINO robbery lhat ·occu'fred ·on April 9 at impersonation. 7Theyweren~·l payinga~Yii a r.;- , Ol Beaver said. "He wore it like a Ciry Neh'S Editor badge." the Super Fresh Supermarket on Kath)een M'ae 'Pi'urlii was ilrres'ted of ii.nen'tion to house cleaning." While Beaver said he thought Four Newark residents were New London Road. for possession of heroin, seco.nd Wilkers said the suspects were student turnout was "outstanding" arrested for possession of heroin and As a result of the search, the other degree conspiracy, possession of also arrested for stealing baby and he is Looking forward to drug paraphernalia Tuesday defendants were arrested on various drug paraphernalia and maintaining · formula, home pregnancy tests and running in the future , John morning, Newark Police said. charges. a dwelling for the use of controlled over-the-counter pain relievers from Bauscher, who ran against Jerry Jeremy Michael Stewart, 20, Stewart was charged with two substances. stores in New Castle County to sell Brian Marcus Flagg, 20, Kathleen on the black market in Philadelphia. Clifton in District 2, said he thought counts of second-degree robbery, Jonathan Scott Piunti ·was student turnout could have been Mae Piunti, 20, and Jonathan Scott second-degree conspiracy and charged with one count of During the search, Wilkers said better. Piunti, 21, were arrested at about offensive touching, one count of possession of heroin and drug the police located a logbook listing " Students didn't come out the 6:50 a.m . after Newark Police possession of heroin, possession of paraphernalia. various·local supermarkets and drug entered the home of Stewart and his stores, store inventories and the best way they needed to," he said. drug paraphernalia, maintaining a Wilkers said when police entered "That's pretty obvious." girlfriend, Piunti, at Villa Bellmont dwelling for the use of contr-olled the condominium, they found nine times to remove the products without being caught. He said he is still going to on Welsh Tract Road, said Newark substances and reckless driving. small bags of heroin and numerous continue to talk about open Police Lt. William Wilkers. Flagg was arrested on two counts empty heroin bags littered Wilkers said there was no Wilkers said police obtaine-d a of second-degree rbbbery and throughout the one-bedroom indication they were selling any THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill government issues while urging Dan Beaver shows his more students to express their search warrant for the condominium offensive touching, one count of condominium. heroin. after an investigation to locate se~ond degree conspiracy, "The apartment was filthy and "They were using [the heroin] as displeasure with the election see ELECTION page A8 Stewart , who was wanted in possession of heroin and drug cluttered," Wilkers said . "It smelled fast as they were getting [it]," he ·results Thesday night. connection with a s!rong-arm paraphernalia and criminal like garbage. said. Students UD tries to eradicate remember 'party school' image BY ANDREW GRYPA Holocaust · Managing NI!\'1-'S Editor As the effects of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to combat binge drinking on campus BY DOMENICO MONTANARO have begun to set in, the university is engaged in an Spons Edimr all-out campaign to change its "party school" image. ... Nely Eiser, age 40, Auschwitz; Franz "Alcohol is a very big part of the culture," said Ederer, age 56, Condllt; Semion Aizerov, age John Bishop. the RWJF coordinator and assistant vice 19, Stalingrad; Rakhel Eisner, age 1, president for Student Life. "We got invited to apply Auschwitz; Sura Aikhel, age 18, Treblinka; for this grant on merit." Da vid Aizenstein, age 28, Rokitno: Maria Bishop said the purpose of the alcohol grant is to Edelstein, age 38, Odessa ... try and change the alcohol culture on campus. "We're not saying students can't have fun here," The names of more than 6,000 Holocaust Bishop said. ''There's a part of this image that is a victims were read aloud in front of the downside that's not in anybody's best interest. Trabant University Center Tuesday as part of 'There's nothing evil about alcohol in and of itself. the university's participation in Holocaust What we're concerned about is that the consequences PART 1: Remembrance Day. of drinking have been too costly." The 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. reading, the first-ever University President David P. Roselle stated in an THE CULTURE OF ALCOHOL at the university, was followed by an e-mail message that the university is trying to avoid ./FAMILY LIFE interfaith service held in the Trabant having numerous alcohol-related deaths and accidents t'c CAMPUS LIFE Multipurpose Room to honor the memory of which have resulted from irresponsible use of alcohol. the millions who died in the Holocaust. "It is our hope that our University of Delaware PART II: The event was sponsored by the University students will .be able to avoid such incidents," Roselle Religious Leaders Organization and the : said. 'There is not any desire to interfere with students ALCOHOL ON CAMPUS having a good time. · names for the reading were provided by • WHAT UD HAS DONE 'The goal is, instead,. to have persons of legal age B'Nai B'Rith, one of the most widely known • LESSONS LEARNED Jewish organizations in the world, and Yad who choose to consume alcohol to do so responsibly Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Israel. and to respect the rights of their fellow students and PART Ill: others and to avoid personal injury to themselves and Renee B . Shatz, director of the Hillel THE GREEK BATILE Student Center, said they chose to read the others." names in front of Trabant for a reason. Bishop said one of the goals of the RWJF grant is • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEBATE "We wanted to maximize the number of to get the university's binge-drinking numbers down • NATIONAL CHAPTER D EBATE people we were touching," she said. "It's one to the national level of 44 percent for bingers and 19 • LEGALITIES iNVOLVED of the busiest locations on campus." percent for frequent bingers. • R EACTION FROM UD CHAPTERS Shatz also said she hoped students would In the original 1993 Harvard School of Public pause and take a moment to remember those Health survey, 61.9 percent of students at the who died.