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MIKELS Nt!l,"S Features Editor The incident is being labeled an accidental Student Affairs Editor Four criminal assaults took place on and around confrontation, he said, since is appears the victim The University Bookstore and campus Thursday and Friday mornings, officials said. walked between two males be saw walking down retail operations anticipate its The first incident occurred Friday morning slightly Haines Stree~ at which point a verbal confrontation percentage of loss will double · after 12 a.m. on the Pencader steps leading to Ray ensued. The victim responded by voluntarily banding from last year, exceeding the 2.5 Street, Public Safety Captain Joel Ivory said. money over to the alleged assailants, be said. percent national average set by Two 18-year-old male students reported seeing 'This is not necessarily a robbery," Simpson said. market and business analysts for two male subjects on the top of the steps, he said. One 'The victim may have just drawn that conclusion." college .bookstores, officials said. student was kicked in the back of the leg and fell. The The victim in the assault, a junior male living in the Director Dorothy Lofland said assailants demanded money and threatened to cut one Gilbert complex, said he wished not to be identified the bookstore experienced 1.6 victim if he did not comply, Ivory said, but no He said be was walking down Haines Street percent shrinkage, or loss, in weapons were displayed. toward the Gilbert complex when he saw two males, THE REVIEW/Celia Dietz 2001, which. includes internal and The students gave the assailants $20, he said, after one white and one black. walking down the street Newark Police are investigating a reported external theft as well as which the assailants fled. ahead of him. mugging Thursday on Haines Street. paperwork errors. The suspects are described as two males in their When he approached the Raines/Lovett While statistics for this year are early 20s, Ivory said. The first was described as white, intersection, he said, the two males walked on both outside Pearson Hall and Public Safety responded in the process of being compiled, slightly over 6 feet tall, with brown hair who wore sides of him. One male grabbed him around the neck, within one minute. Lofland said she anticipates the dark clothing. The second suspect was described as he said, pulling him towards him. The case was handed over to Newark Police, Ivory bookstore's shrinkage will black, between five feet II inches and six feet, "At that point I just handed him my wallet," the said, since Haines Street is not university property. increase to approximately 3 wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a backward victim said. 'They said 'We don't want to hurt you, Simpson said while the description of the Haines percent. baseball cap. we don't want your wallet, just the money.' They Street assailants seem similar to the Pencader While the figure is high, No serious injuries were sustained in the incident, didn't have any weapons." assailants, the timing and proximity of the two Lofland said, it is not the highest Ivory said, and the suspects are still at large. "It wasn't an ambush," the victim said. "I saw incidents are such that they are probably not related. shrinkage rate the university has A second incident occurred at the comer of Haines them long before. They were walking together." . ever suffered. She cited the 1960s Street and Lovett Avenue around 12:30 a.m. The victim said he called police from a blue light see STUDENT page A4 as a time when students were rebellious and loss percentages rose above the average. "Everyone wants to see this percentage hit zero, but this is the Professor awaits real world," she said. Last year's shrinkage of 1.6 percent was relatively good in lHE REVIEW!Celia Dietz comparison to other schools Bookstore managers report theft across the nation, Lofland said. of clothing and gifts Mi doubled funds to study While much of the theft in 2001 since this time last yea& involved clothing and textbooks, she said, clothing and gift items theft at the beginning of the 2002 have been targeted this year. Spring Semester. Textbook manager Kristen She said she sees a pattern of utism genetics Wing said three people have been textbooks for introductory level arrested in connection with classes being stolen over textbook theft this semester. paperback books. BY SUSAN KIRKWOOD "By July 1, if we don' t see that One person, she said, was Lofland said despite thefts, the Senior News Editor we can do this here, we will think caught stuffing books down his store works to create an . It has been more than a year about moving it to Maryland," he pants. atmosphere where customers can s1nce the university's director of said. "We can't make the children "If we see something like that browse without employees genomics research first proposed an and parents wait- it's unfair to we are obviously going to call the "breathing down their backs." i1Jitiative to study autism to the them. It's been two years and we police," she said. "It's not as if Big Brother is College of Arts and Science. have yet to do the first experiment. Wing said two other people watching you [while you ; Today, Eric Kmiec, a university "Maybe it just doesn't have the arrested were allegedly stealing browse]," she said. biology professor and director of priority here, but it's time to do books from the University Cliff Ewert, vice president of gene therapy and genomics research something, and we can't wait any Bookstore and selling them to public and campus relations for at the Delaware Biotechnology longer." other bookstores on Main Street. Follett, said information regarding Institute, said he has yet to receive Dr. Karoly Horvath, University The textbook department of the the shrinkage of other schools is full funding for his study of autism. of Maryland professor of pediatrics University Bookstore is closed for privileged information. "We're waiting for either the in the school of medicine's the remainder of the semester, she Foll~tt is contracted to provide university or the DBI to get us department of pediatrics, said he has said, and clerks now provide textbooks to the University rolling," he said. "We' ve had a been studying autism there since service to customers still in need Bookstore. tremendous amount of verbal 1996. of course readings. Mike Rodman, regional support, but so far nothing has come "Autism is a group of behavioral While it is typical for the manager of Follet, stated in an e­ through. symptoms," he said. "Some people . THE REVIEW/Celia Dietz department to close itself at the mail message that Follett Higher "It's been a little disappointing." have a few symptoms, some people A field of trees on New London Road was cleared last week to end of each semester, Wing said, Education is responsible for all Kmiec said he and the have them all. But autistic doesn't make way for the university's new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel. it closed early this year due to the losses. Consortium for Autism Research, mean they have the same which was established last year, symptoms." _ have already obtained part of their Horvath said he is 'studying the requested $250,000 from outside relationship between gastro­ sources, including a $ 100,000 grant intestinal disorders and symptoms in from the Crystal Trust foundation. children with autism. Student helps woman on airplane Kmiec said that "We find that patients although he is have unusual responses BY MELISSA BERMAN to obtain a reading of her heart delighted with the to certain foods, and we Staff Reponer rhythm. grant mo11ey , he is are looking at the Accelerating down the runway, Wedged between the two lavatories hesitant to start any changes they have to Delta Airlines Flight 1199 was 20 at the back of the plane and amidst the research project find a trigger to the seconds away from takeoff when a jarring sounds of engines, Miller took without the full cause," he said. university nursing student became a the woman's pulse and placed an funding, as the amount Kmiec said be hero. oxygen mask over her face. was carefully would study the tissue On April 3, Ivan Miller, 43, could A normal heart rhythm indicated to calculated to cover samples from these feel the plane rumbling beneath him Miller and the doctor that the woman both personnel and children and look for as be looked out the window. After a was alive. equipment costs that would go to genetic links between them. stop in Atlanta to see his cousin, his "I have a wedding I've got to get studying the relationship between Cathy Rookard, board member next destination would be the Civil to," said the semi-coherent woman. microbiology and autism. for the Consortium or Autism Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala. She told Miller she had a history of "We want to not only make a Research, said she presented facts "Good day for flying.