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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY March 20, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 40 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Five-star plan More March Madness Turner wins to be revised FOIA suit BY LIZ JOHNSO ways like missions and size," he said. Srmle"' Affwrs E(/it~~r against city Some student leaders said they felt Student leaders and members of it was not fair for small er special BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO the Activities and Programs Office interest groups to have to do Ctt) New.•• Ediwr met on Wednesday and decided the community service and co-sponsor The verdict is in. new five-star evaluation system for events. Councilwoman Nancy Turner has won her lawsuit student groups needs to be refined E rik Mitsch, president of the against the city of ewark over a Freedom of Information before it can be put into effect. Anime Club, a group which promotes Act complaint she filed with the state after a June 9 council Scott Mason. assistant director of divers ity through the viewi ng of meeting. the student center, said there had Japanese animation. said he feels William B. Chandler II, chancellor of the Court of been a lot of feedback to the system. there are potential prob lems for Chancery, ruled Tuesday in favor of Tumer stating that He said the meeting had been groups like his, which is a "very some issues discussed in a City Council executive se ion necessary for discussing this special interest group.'' held on June 9 should have been conducted in a public feedback. He said it's hard enough to get forum. The five-star evaluation system people to come to meetings, let alone Tumer said her decision to bring the case to the attention requires student groups to ful fi II ask them to co-sponsor events with of the stale has been viewed as unpopular by many, but she certain requirements, such as co groups that have nothing in common stands behind her belief that government should be snf)nsoring events with other groups with his. accessible to the public. and keeping financial information up Also, he said, ''It's not my place to "I make no apologies for insisting the business of the to d~ne , in order to receive funding ask these people to start doing people be performed in public prescribed by the state· s and resources from the university. community service. since our group Freedom of Information Act." she said. The system was created by a is not like that.'' Councilman and mayoral candidate Harold F. Godwin student panel of group leaders called Leo Shane III, editor in chief of said he did not see the decision as a big deal and did not the Student Organization Leadership The Review. asked, " Why is a know what the ramifications would be. ~ Activities and Resources Council. All student group better if it does "It is not like we are going to find out who shot Jesse student groups are required to tum in community service if that's not the James if the minutes are released," he said. forms showing they completed their purpose it was formed for?" According to Chandler's brief. City Council voted at the requirements to this council. However. some student leaders June 9 meeting to go into an executive session to discuss personnel matters. "Even the SOLAR Counci 1- has feel it will not be a large burden to problems with the SOLAR packet.'' have groups do things they are not The meeting veered off from legal discussion and into Mason said. necessarily accustomed to doing. the disputed conversation. The discussion, initiated by the mayor, dealt with "council protocol'' which involved a One of the topics Mason said he Black Student Union President lengthy conversation about the '·words <md actions of other received a lot of feedback about was Monique Colclough said co members of council and the public perception of council -whether the system can be fairly sponsoring events with other groups perfonnance." applied to different groups. is a way to promote diversity and to TI1e brief states the di scussion included personal criticism Mike Sauers, president of the not participate would be selfi sh. by some council members about others. It was sparked in Delaware Undergraduate Student Stephanie Mellor, president of the part by conversation regarding a council members' concerns Congress and member of SOLAR, Resident Student Association, said about a potential nominee to the city's ethics board. said the council was looking at ways community service projects could be THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill In his ruling, Chandler also found that the city failed to to address that problem. as simple as E-S2 Student Theatre Fred " Preacher" Smith slam dunks for the crowd during Monday's Harlem provide notice on the public agenda about what the grounds "We are talking about tailoring the inviting a high school drama group to Globetrotter game at the Bob Carpenter Center. For a complete story, see Bl. of the executive session were to be and therefore it was not system for different types of properly convened. organizations- grouping them in see SOLAR page AS Review Residence Hall Rankings Waitress's Web pages A look inside . Interior charges Locat1on Features vandalized campus housing South Central BY BRIAN CALLAWAY A double room ••• ..• •• •••• dropped National/State Neu·s £ditur .. costs each student • About 300 students had Today's deadline for housing $2,S90 per semester, North -t .•. ~ BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO Central Clll New'i Ediror applications is leaving students in a frenzr while singles, which •••• .... pornography added to to complete their forms and decide wh;t are mainly available ... The charges have been dropped ·~ against the waitress who was residence hall on campus is best F;r th em. 1n Gilbert, are Laird .. .~ arrested Jan. lS for serving their Internet sites Cost, appliances, room si~e and other $3,070. characteristics will play a significant role In addition, if ..... alcohol without a valid liquor BY MELISSA BRAU ••• •••• Admi11istrmwe News Editar in the final choice for many students. In the tobacco products are • • license to Delaware Alcoholic and .. • Beverage Control Commission In the past two weeks, about 300 student websites. final part of a three-part series examining bothersome to East tt . enforcement officials at Cafe mostly belonging to South Central Campus residents. on-campus upper-class housin g, Th e s tudents, Harrington •...• ••.. •• Americana in ewark. Re1·iew takes th ese characteristics into C and Gilbert C are • have been hacked into and vandalized. Junior Samantha Miller had her On Sunday, Marc h 8. and then again on the consideration. smoke-f ree t· West ' ·t · day in court on Tuesday after following Thursday and Friday, student e-mail dormitories. ... East Campus One drawback to •· many postponements. All charges accounts were illegally accessed. Later. student .. •· • •• Ea t Campus is the • against Miller were finally wcbsites were either altered or created to showcase a If dorm popularity is any indicator of lack of a1r dropped. pornographic image of three women. L------------------------------------~~~E~~~~~' IEW~M~M~R~•~c~~~~~l ~ According to Victoria how nice a residence hall is, East Campus conditi o ning 1n the After freshman Robert Ruddy's account was give more privacy between roommates," Witherell, deputy attorney general, has a lot going for it. dorms. broken into, he said he decided to do some she said. " But other than that. [the dorms] the case lacked "prosecutable Harrington Comp lex was the most However. even with this deficiency, investigating. are pretty nondescript." merit.'' Ruddy said he called Public Safety, which is now requested area on campus last year with 97 1 many students enjoy East Campus life. "It was my understanding that first-choice requests, according to statistics Harrington E resident Abbey Weiss said investigating th e incidents. and also contacted Laird Campus she had been employed there for a university Information Technologies. from Housing Assignment Services. although the dorm is fairly mundane, she short period of time ... she said. One reason for this popularity may be docs like the architectural arrangement "The reason I [looked into] it was because I was Many students choose to live at the "and was not aware that they did the fact that East Campus has the which divides rooms into two separate told the university was not making an effort to make Christiana Towers. Pencader and Ray Street not have a liquor permit." di s tinction of being one of the cheapest areas. Miller was arrested 111 areas to Ii·,.e. ''The fact that the rooms are split can see HACKER page A I 0 see EV ALUA TlNG page AS connectio n with an ABC investigation into Cafe Americana. Jim McNair. an ABC enforcement agent. sa id Miller was arrested for serving liquor when the restaurant did not have a Just clowning around proper permit. McNair also said Miller would have had no way of knowing the A new campus group works to put smiles back into medicine re staurant owners did not have a valid license. BY CATHERINE CHANG R e"my. a Medical Scholar at the makeup and put on a jumpsuit. Swff Reporter Gina Acker, the owner of Cafe university, began training as a clown at " Right now, another trained clown and I teach the others,'' he said, "but as Americana, died March 9 from In a lonely room, an eight-year-old the age of 10. liver failure in at Churchman boy is lying on a sterile hospital bed Since then.