I (',• In Sports In Serendipity An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Review reporter and a National Pa cemaker Take the plunge, hangs with the 'Siowdive' hockey team IHE page B5 page Bl FREE EVI FRIDAY Statistics Sentence determined for tear gas incident . h 1 G .ff' 1 d 'It to ch However, students had mixed reactions to Laurie Messina (NU SO), who lives on the ftfth professor NlC 0 as f1 lll p ea S gu1 y arges. Gritrm's sentence. noor, said "I have asthma and r couldn't take my Mike Collier (PE SR), Griffin's former [asthma] medicine because I didn't know how it 8)'5ANDY ORMSBEE Griffin placed a jar of chlorobenzyuliden roommate, said he thought the punishment was would react with [the gas). dies after Srudentllffaits Editor malonitri.Je (CS) in the fifth floor hallway, very harsh. "For what he did to us, [the punishment) he got Nicholas Griffin (EG SR), the former threatening to release the gas if neighbors refused "When you look at the whole picture," he said, was not nearly enough for the problems he caused wliversity student arrested in connection with the to be quiet "being expelled from school with only one year everybody in the building." release of tear gas last fall in Christiana West When the jar was accidently knocked over, the left [is more serious than people realize). Dare Gaston (EG SR), a sixth floor resident, illness Tower, pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal military-strength tear gas spread throughout the "It limits his opportunities [not only) at the had mixed feelings. mischief. building, causing about 650 students to be university, but world-wide as well." "U it was accidental, I would say (the penalty) BY TRAcy IARGAY Judge Haile L. Alford sentenced Griffin to a evacuated for up to a week, and 29 students to be West Tower resident, Jenn Harkins (AS JR) .is sufficient," she said. "If it was deliberate, then Administroliw1 New< Editor year of probation, $100 fine and 25 hours of treated for respiratory problems. disagreed and said she did not feel Griffin's I'm outraged because I was very inconvenienced. Henry Barnes Tingey, a professcr community service in Superior Court in Vice President of Student Life Stuart Sharkey punishment was stiff enough for what happened. "It cost me money to stay in a hotel. I didn't of mathematical sciences at the Wilmington. said, "(The incident] is over, he 's out [of the "He should have gotten more," she said, "he have my glasses, so I had days of eye strain. I wliversity, died at Otristiana Hospital Griffin was expelled from the university university], the court decided his case. endangered a lot of people's Lives and a lot of cculdn 't hand in my class work. Tuesday at age 59 due to respiratory immediately following the Nov. 19 incident "Case closed." people got sick from it" "He's a lucky man." failure. A statistics professor since 1965, he served as associate chair of the mathematical sciences department from 1982 to 1987. Tingey was co-<lirector of Delaware Project 301/Mathematics since 1989, a Undercover program helping to bring about mathematical reform at the national and state level. Tingey also served on the Delaware bust results in Council for Teachers of Mathematics Board fcr the past eight years and was the university administrator for the Teacher Retraining in Critical Curricular Areas program drug arrests A service will be held at Robert T. Jones & Foard FW!eral Home at 2 p.m. Saturday. BY BRIAN HICKEY reckless endangerment and resisting QyNe...Cditor arrest. Two ru.spects were arrested as a result Following Graef's apprehension, of a month-long Newark and Delaware police went to a home in the Birch Pointe Faculty State Police investigation of marijuana Condominiums in Pike Creek, where a sales in the Newark area Monday, search resulted in the confiscation of a Newark Police Lt William F. Nefosky half-poWld of marijuana and 12.5 grams said. of phenocyclidine (PCP). Senate An undercover police officer met with The owner of the home, Donald one of the suspects, Bruce Graef, of McConnick, was charged with trafficking Northeast, Md., to make a deal to PCP, possessing marijuana and PCP with purchase one pound of marijuana in the the intent to deliver, mail)taining a vehicle settles on Polly Drummond Shopping Center for the sale of drugs and possessing drug parldng lot in Newarlc. paraphernalia, Nefosky said. After the offiCer attempted to make an Gander Hill Prison officials were arrest, Graef tried to flee in his pickup Wlable to release the maximum term each resolutions could face if coovicted. truck, but aMilu officer on the scme was able to jump into the flalbcd of the truck, The offica who jumped in the flalbcd BY ROB WHERRY treated ContlibtJrins E.ditor police said. of Oraer s truck was for cuts on his The ru.spect stopped the vehicle after hands and was released from Newark After a two-month debate on how to the officer lroke the truck's back window, Emergency Center Monday. deal with academic activities which Nefosky said. Graef and McCormick were both violate the university's policy on Graef was charged with possessing released from Garoer Hill Prison Tueroay, discrimination, the Faculty Senate marijuana with intent to deliver, Graef on $7,300 secured bond and reached a compromise Monday by maintaining a vehicle for the sale of drugs, McCormick rn an Wldiscloscd amount passing new legislation to clarify previously ambiguous ideas. By overwhelming majorities, the Senate voted to pass two resolutions which will lead to the identification and description of classes violating the Students with discrirninalion policy. The ftrst resolution will erase any activity (course, section, laboratory) inconsistent with the policy from transcripts, registration booklets and 3.25 make list catalogs. The second resolution states university publications and distributed dean's list will stay at 3.25 or change to literature must Jist restrictions on The university 3.5 GPA. or possibly find a happy certificate programs which could affect medium somewhere in the middle, said prospective students. tried to change Linda· Dunn, assistant dean for the At the conclusion of 1993, two College c:L Business and EcooOO!ics. resolutions closely related to the recent the Dean's List. Dunn said the reason behind the legislation were heavily debated and decision to raise the standards is the reworked, leading to Monday's It forgot to do university's desire to "recognize meeting. One was to grant permanent outstanding scholarship in fewer status to the Air Force Reserve Officers munbers. Training Corps (ROTC) program, one thing. "The deans agree that this a while the other tried to set the BY NATAUE TRIER£R ~le thing to do because it's a l1lml discrimination policy in stone. Assi!titltNewsfd& exclusive group." The first passed. But due to Students who earned a 325 GPA. Fall The Faculty Senate is comprised of ambiguous language, the Iauer did not. faculty ani student representatives who Semester did not receive a letter of , THE REVIEW /Ali sa Colley It failed to take into consideration will v<Xe on the increase. Durm said sll: coogratulations from the dean fcr making A university student, who began his trek across The Mall with nary a worry, suddenly finds instances such as deaf students taking feels the students will approve the increase the dean's list himself face-to-face with a UD plow Monday afternoon. music coWliCS. According to university vice provost because students will probably want to be The immediate impact of the new Margaret Arxlerson, those students who part of a smaller, more selective group. resolutions will be felt by the Air Force met the requirements fcr the dean's list ROTC program, which uses physical will receive a letter of congratulations and sexual orientation criteria to from their college's dean shortly. evaluate their students. The course The deans were discussing the change Leadership Laboratory, which leads to Valentine's Day can be a thorn in your sic/e with the IJUVOSt's office and wanted to candidacy for fuJI-time officer status in change the stmdards of the dean's list to the armed service, will be removed a3.5GPA. BY LAUREN MEDNICK craze," he said, "a dozen roses range from all academic records and However, they did not follow proper A11isranr Features Cdiror Roses are seen as a gift of love. from $55 to $75." The price increase may put thorn publications. procedure of going through the Faculty "A rose by any ozher name will for Main Street Florist and Plant Shop a United States prepare for their in anyone's side, but there's a reason The overall objective is to make all Senate, Andersoo said. smell as sweet' perennial business boom. Aorists are at 133 E. Mai n St. for it students aware of restrictions placed on The university's decision has been This excerpt from "Romeo and The prices for a doz:en roses tripling labor, overstocking their "It seems like we are racking in the them. temporarily reversed until the Faculty Juliet" may apply to the importance normally range from $37.50 (for the shelves and generally geuing ready bucks, but in reality we are not," he "Our publications have to be as Senate votes oo the matter sometime in of a name, but obviously Romeo for the big day. 18 - to 22-inch roses) to $47.50 (for said. "We have to triple our labor, clear to students as possible," said AJri <r May, said Bamie Scott, Faculty didn't have to buy roses for "We have a 600 percent increase in the 26- to 30-inch roses) at Main hire more drivers, purchase extra Bonnie Kime Scott, president of the Senate {J'CSideru.