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Professor's notes Beekeeper raises Hens football holds lead to bomb scare campus buzz annual Blue-White game Seepage3 Seepage 18 Seepage28 Tuesday, April 27, 2010 r~View·corn. Ibreaking news and more. Volume 137, Issue 24 TA charged with failure to regtster• as sex offender BY KATIE RIMPFEL Staff Reporter Charles "Maurice" Green, a uni versity doctoral student and teaching assistant, has been placed on admin istrative leave after being charged Wednesday with failing to register as a TifE REVIEW!Erica Cohen sex offender in the state of Delaware, Counter-protesters held a mix of serious and comical signs to protest a controversial anti-abortion display on The Green on Thursday. university police said. Green, 40, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had been working for the university as a teaching assistant since February, po lice said. Abortion protest sparks debate According to Chief Patrick Og den, university police were notified of Green's history after either the New York sex offender registry or Green's Coun~~;~~!f.!E~;ld to cr:.!!o~~e graphic photos WARNING parole officer contacted the Delaware EMILY MARTINEZ "Our purpose is to provoke thought and GENOCIDE State Bureau of Identification's Sex The Review conversation on abortion," Linnemann said. Offender Registry Unit. On Wednesday and Thursday, an anti- The California-based advocacy group PHOTO "Someone from New York reached abortion display sponsored by the registered GAP travels around the country displaying its S out to their sex offender registry unit student organization Pro-Life Vanguard posters on college campuses. and said that a sex offender from New sparked a First Amendment rights debate Gina Paladinetti, vice president of Pro- AHEAD York is going to school ·and helping among students and community members. Life Vanguard, said the display was simply out as a teaching assistant at the uni The Genocide Awareness Project, which showing a truth. versity," Ogden said. was displayed on The Green by the national "This shows people when they are dis Green was a doctoral student in anti-abortion group Center for Bio-Ethical cussing abortion, this is what it looks like," the department of sociology and crimi Reform drew a protest of students against the Paladinetti said. nology, Ogden said. According to the use of both the graphic photographs of abort- In response to CBR's protest on Wednes- department's website, Green has been ed fetuses, as well as the parallels drawn to specializing in demographic analy the Holocaust and lynching. See PROTEST page 12 sis, incarceration, re-entry and ethno Kurt Linnemann, director of CBR Mary TifE REVIEW/Aiyssa Benedetto graphic methods. land, said the display is meant to make the For a p o gallery fro t1k A national anti-abortion group set up a point that abortion is comparable to historical protest, visit udreview.com display of graphic photos on The Green. See SEX OFFENDER page 13 Forum on CEPP reorganization turns contentious Future remains uncertain for School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy BY KATIE SPEACE action, which required the use of a gavel to the Department of Human Development and Layout Editor bring order. 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The university is working to train a dog of Komer Diner SUJ>pected bomb threat that caused the evacua "We tracked down the professor that. had its own in explosives for similar events. Newark tion of Alison Hall on Wednesday was actually the last class," university police Chief Patrick Police has dogs trained in narcotics, but none based on notes written on a blackboard by a uni- Ogden said. "The message was different ways · in explosives. The state is also lacking work BYEVANKORY to structure a sentence, ing dogs trained in this area, so the university Staff Reporter two different things that reached out to Delaware Technical and Commu alluded to a bomb." nity College for help, Ogden said. Cheeburger Cheeburger, a din At 8:15a.m. Wednes "We're hoping by next school year to have er-style establishment specializing day, university police at least one K-9 team up and running so that if in a variety of burgers, will open were notified of the we have an incident in the future the building in August in the building formerly threat in Alison Hall. shouldn't be closed for an hour," Ogden said. occupied by the Korner Diner on Police teamed up with The follow-up investigation included speak Main Street. Delaware Technical and ing with professors and custodial staff until the The burger chain currently has Community College to cause of the suspected threat was found later locations in 29 cities in 20 states. obtain a <Jog trained in that day.