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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • The history and dangers of Baseball sweeps Albany, tanning, Cl Bl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Tuesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE \'olumt• 12S . Issue -t2 www.rniew.udel.edu Tues<hl\.. \larrh 26. 2002 Escort service Assault on Creek Road BY STEVE RUBENSTEIN remember anything about the attack." enough to be during the day. I never Editor in Chief Navarro said her injuries were not considered it unsafe." A 29-year-old university graduate consistent with a hit and run accident. The student said faculty .and friends will not change student sustained a concussion, facial Police found no obvious signs of a in the political science and fracture and lacerations to her face and motor vehicle collision near the international relations department have BY JESSICA EULE assaulted. Another student said she head Wednesday while jogging on Neu•s Features Editor was jogging on East Park Place at reported area where the victim was been fully supportive as she begins to A string of recent attacks and Creek Road, New Castle County found, he said. · recover. 10:15 p.m. when she was grabbed Police said. assaults off campus will not affect from behind by a man wearing a The university student, who is in her She expressed frustration, however, Public Safety's escort service The woman, whose name is being second year of study toward a with the university's failure to black ski mask. Early in the withheld, told police she remembers policy, said James Flatley, senior morning on March 17, a male doctorate in political science and publicize her attack on the school's assistant director of Public Safety. jogging at around 3:30 p.m. on the international relations, said she began Web site. The site has posted news student was mugged at the road in White Clay Creek State Park Ratley said as far as he is aware, intersection of Wyoming Road and her jog from the Carpenter Sports bulletins about other assaults in recent the escort service, which is when she was assisted by a passing Building about 15 or 20 minutes prior weeks to alert students. South Chapel Street. motorist who transported her to a provided for students ===.="".==""' Depending on who is to when she believes she was '1 don't think Newark is very safe walking from one point on See editonal, AS nearby home, New Castle County assaulted. right now," the victim said. " I am available when an escort 1liE REVIEW!Rob Meletti Police Officer Trinidad Navarro said. campus to another, will not is requested, Flatley She remembers the weather on her concerned that if I was beat up in the be extended to include off-campus Public Safety's escort service "The investigation revealed the afternoon jog was cloudy with a slight middle of the day, why weren't people said, an escort could be a police provides a way for concerned victim may have been physically areas. officer, security officer or a student drizzle, but said she never questioned informedT' "We need to keep the service students to get around campus assaulted or struck by a vehicle," he her safety on a road so close to On March 13, a student was jogging aid on a bike. said. "We really don' t know what limited," be said. " If we sent escorts to or from off-campus campus. on East Park Place at 10:15 p.m. when A student requesting an escort happened to her." escorts all over Newark, it would locations. "I go running alone there all the a man wearing a black ski mask can call from a cell phone as well The victim said she only remembers deplete our police force." "We don't want someone calling time," the victim said. "As a woman, grabbed her from behind. Early March as a blue-light phone, be said, but that she went to the hospital. In the early morning hours of from the Wilmington train station you have to take precautions - I know 10, a 19-year-old woman reported an would have to be on campus when "I was staggering along the road March 10 , a student reported to saying they'll need an escort in half that. incident of attempted rape and placing the call. The service is not afterward and flagged someone down," Newark Police that she was available for students seeking "But at the same time, I assumed unlawful sexual conduct at School see POLICY page A7 she said. "I had a concussion and don't that it was a place well populated Lane Garden Apartments. Students Reform Party advocates attacked nationalism, state rights BY STACEY CARLOUGH Delaware state committee itself is in the process Senior News Editor of transition and growth. atlvy Hall The Reform Party has held many platforms in Nancy Dobson, national party-builder for the its 10-year history, but three tenets have Reform Party, said candidates running under the BY KIM BROWN remained consistent throughout - fiscal party banner are trying to reestablish trust lost Staff Reponer responsibility, political accountability and a between the American political system and its A parked car filled with seven female return to morality and "family values." citizens. university students was violently attacked at While the party is considerably more right She said Reform Party members intend to set Ivy Hall Apartments Friday night after a three wing than other national third parties, it an example "through their own credibility." mile pursuit by two unidentified cars carrying represents many similar "We get members elected by l 0 to 12 passengers, students said. sentiments, including a .------------ - --, advocating for family Vl;llues Sophomore and driver Becky Leder, 20, departure from the two-party and constitutional said she and six other passengers sat in her car system in American politics. compliance," she said. "We put :while a group of young men and women Jerome Heinemann, ~ reform paf!P America ftrst." punched and kicked the outside of her silver Northeast regional Dobson said the reason the Honda Civic. representative of the Reform two major parties have been · Leder gave the following account of the Party, said unlike other political "losing members in droves for .incident: parties that rally under a ......,_ • tiN thi:rtlba ~.o....... the past 10 years is because She was leaving a parking lot when comprehensive platform, the 1 ..,. II 11~-:- they are selling out to the 'one someone in an adjacent car asked, "Are you Reform Party "is more of a part series profilhag ' worlders.'" picking up Mindy?" One passenger said no and confederation." polllietll third~ One-worldersinclude Leder drove away. " Each state can accept or L....__ .....;......._ _______ _ organizations such as the During the ride home, she was harassed by reject issues from the national United Nations, the North menacing gestures from people in the cars party," he said. ''That means each state has its American Free Trade Asgreement and the World following her. The vehicles repeatedly boxed in own platform and issues." Trade Organization, she said, all of which ignore Leder's car. However, Heinemann said, each state chapter the domestic stability of America in favor of At this point, passengers used a cell phone to of the party maintains certain ideals of the whole international profit. call friends at Ivy Hall and asked them to wait Reform Party, including national sovereignty, " Americans, by and large, are opposed to outside. Leder pulled into Ivy Hall's parking lot TilE REVIEW/Sue Fan strong immigration control, states' rights and that," Dobson said. "But nobody asks them." and saw a small crowd in the courtyard. As the Community parents and children hunt through White Clay Creek accountability of government officials. One individual, however, did ask Americans passengers realized these people were from tl\e State Park Saturday for egp filled with toys and candy. See Story, A6. Delaware is a part of the Northeast Region by cars that had been chasing them, the assailants Reform Party standards, he said, but the see BUSH page A7 ran toward the car and began attacking it. One of the female assaulters managed to open the unlocked passenger side door, then hesitated. Leder used the opportunity to drive away and call police. AAUP "I never expected anything like that to Clinton aide discusses happen," she said. "It was the scariest experience of my life and I knew I just had to get away from them." contract Newark Police Officer Scott Horsman said discrimination and race no motive has been determined in the case. arguments about what kind of community we "Without getting the license plate number or BY TOM MONAGHAN Admini>trmive Neh·s Editor want to build." specific descriptions of the persons, it becomes Problems of discrimination and the future of Edley also discussed the current notion held fmalized very difficult to catch those responsible," he affirmative action were discussed by by many lawmakers that a better community said. BY TOM MONAGHAN Christopher Edley, former aide to President can be built through incarceration of criminals, Adtninistroti>'e News Editor Sophomore backseat passenger Lindsay Bill Clinton Thursday to more than 200 people Heubach, 19, said she was petrified during the instead of solving the problems that breed The contract between the American in Smith Hall. rampant crime in many poor minority Association of University Professors attack. " Color matters," said Edley, who is ''They were crazy maniacs who attacked communities. union and the university administration currently a law professor at Harvard "If white communities were as devastated with so much rage," she said.