Peeping Creates Doubts of Dorm Security
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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY November 12, 1999 • THE • Volume 126 Number 17 Review Online Non-Profit Org. www. review. udel. edu U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE Peeping creates doubts of dorm security BY JEN LEMOS The incident marked the fourth time hear about it across campus, but when However , s h e said, resident Natiollal/Stute News Editor in nine years that Mathis was arrested it happens in the dorm next to you, I assistants in her dorm have organized Although the repeated trespassing for trespassing with the intent to peep definitely feel unsafe." meetings for stud ents who do h ave offenses of a former university student or peer. While Bacek and some Gilbert A concerns about the incident and t he again led t o hi s arrest o n Nov . I , From 1990 to 1994, Mathis was residents said they had seriou s safety of the complex. s tudents in the Gilbert complex and charged with various counts of concerns, other s tudents ~ho li ve in " I don' t think securi ty has been s urro unding areas have varying trespassing, one count of shoplifting, the Gilbert B residence hall, the site of threatened," Yetter said, " but I think opinions o n the safety of their one count of harassment and one count the violatio n , said they have fewer that R esidence Life is doing a good job residence halls. of second degree burglary. worries. dealing with [the issue]." Some East Campus residents are He ·has been arrested or c harged in " I haven't tho ught about it at all," John B ishop, d irector of counseling eager to put the incident behind them , at least five incidents that occurred in said junior and third-floor res ident and student develo pment, said he feels but o thers sai d they still feel the Gilbert complex. Maria Gieske. ''I'm not really worried it is reasonable for students to have threatened by the Jeffrey T odd Mathis Sophomore and Gilbert A third about. whether anyone ' s getting in here safety concerns after such a n issue. intrusion. fl oor resident Laura Bacek said she is or not." "Feeling s afe i s a pretty basic Mathis, 29, was taken into custody among those who still have concerns T e ri Yetter, a sophomore who lives hum an need," Bis hop said. " When regarding the incident. on the first floor of Gilbert B , said she students report feeling uneasy because after being found in a stall in the third TilE REVIEW/ File Photo fl oor women's bathroom of the Gilbert " I do, especially since it was so does not f eel th reatened by any their safety is put into do ubt, that's an Jeffrey Todd Mathis' peeping into a Gilbert B residence hall. close," Bacek said. " It's one thing to security hazards. see PEEPER page A9 bathroom has made some students feel unsafe. Apology offered Del. man from Godwin arrested BY DREW VOLTURO on drug City Neu·., Ediwr A quote taken out of context led to an apology and a clarification by Newark Mayor Harold F. Godwin at Monday's City Council meeting. Godwin said his statement in the Oct. 27 issue of the News Journal charges was misrepresented. The article reported the suspension of two Newark police officers in connection with the fatal July 15 traffic stop that resulted in the death of Pedro Martinez. BY STEVE RUBENSTEIN " 'No matter what we do, there are newspaper reporters and City Nell's Editnr sensationalists all around Newilfk who like to make sensational-looking An 18 - year-old man was stories out of nothing,' " Godwin was quoted as saying in the article. arrested Tuesday and charged with "What I said was not directed at the accident," Godwin said at .the thr ee c rimes relating to the meeting. "I feel horrible about this situation and was referring to the p ossessio n of cocaine, Newark reporter and the incident. Police said. ~'Also ,_ I di~ not say '~.!,b!ng.' I saiq · ~at~ver we do.' ". Cpl. Mark Farra ll sai d Sean Oodwm srud the reporter was pressuring h1m to release mformauon Michael K eller of M iddletown , that Newark Police Chief Gerald T. Conway and City Manager Carl Del., was charged with trafficking Luft would not reveal. in cocaine, possession with intent Godwin later said releasing the information the reporter wanted was to dist ri b ute cocaine a nd a violation of state laws. mainta tntng a v ehicle for "Police are protected under a different set of rights," he said. "I delivering controlled substances. support Chief Conway's decision to maintain confidentiality." Police said they fo und m o re Godwin said the leadership of the city has taken steps to ensure that t han one-half of an o unc e of this summer's incident will not be cocaine o n Kelle r at the time of the repeated. stop . "We now train our officers in this Keller, of the 300 block of area," he said. Misty Vale Drive, was arrested at The Opinion section of 6:20 p.m. o n Elkton Road. Police Wednesday's News Journal said he was stopped while driving included an editorial that stating his 1998 Chevrolet pick-up truck. that Godwin owes the city and Farrall said the a r rest was a Martinez's family an apology for result of a joint investigatio n w ith showing "incredible insensitivity the De laware City Police. He said at a situation that cries for utmost he wou ld n o t comment o n the compassion." The editorial was length o r detai Is o f the published after Godwin made his investigation. Godwin statement at the council meeting. Keller is c urrently being held at Godwin said- he was referring to Gander Hill in lieu of $36,000 bail, the police discipline, not the actual July 15 incident. Farra II said. 'The News Journal has ti:Je audacity to take that comment out of the THE REVIEW/ Scott McAllister story to make me look bad," he said. "We all feel terrible about this The wave of anti-technology statements early Thursday morning as this computer was hung tragedy. by its own wires from Memorial Hall. See page A3 for the story. "11us poor man came here to find work to support his family." S4E offers alternative gifts for holidays •. City approves White said. BY WENDY MCKEEVER illustrated show where clothes and other products Staff Rep011er commonly purchased by Americans come from, as Crooker said she hopes the market will educate Every year during the holiday season, people wander well as who is making them and the conditions in people about consumption and waste, as well as around the malls, struggling to find the perfect gifts for which they work. problems of hunger and poverty in third-world nations. a new budget Senior Becky Crooker, president of S4E, said "People don't need to buy material things over the their family and friends. They settle for standard items like sweaters, ties and images ·of packed-in workers, many covered in oil, holiday season," she said. "It's not personal, and it books. plaster the pages of the book to visually illustrate the causes waste." BY DREW VOLTURO Clifton said. "$ 1.4 million of However, Students for the Environment offered hardships people in third-world countries endure. Freshman S4E member Rosie Lee said she thinks City Ne~>·s £di10r o ur budget comes from carry students the opportunity to purchase more meaningful "People should know where their material things many people want to help the needy and stay out of the The City of Newark's 2000 over surplus from the previous and lasting gifts for their loved ones this year. come from," she said, "because we don't see that in malls during the holiday season, but they don't know genera.! operating budget - year." Instead of purchasing another sweater or tie, why not America." how to do it. which c reated positio ns for The budget included a 6 .2 buy a poverty-stricken person in Kenya a lifetime Sophomore Rachel Watz said she thinks people "People see it as a far reach to help someone," she two more police officers and a percent increase - $816,700 supply of clean water for only $22? need to stop and think about what they are buying since said. 'They don't realize how easy it is." water quality engineer - was - in Personal Services Or for o nly $6, how about helping a Haitian many consumers simply purchase items they want from presented and because four full fisherman get that net he has wanted for so long so he the store without considering how to beuer spend their approved at Monday's time and two part can help his family eat? money. City Council meeting. time positions were Clean water, medicine, food and fishing nets are "Eighteen dollars a month can pay for the health City M anager Carl added to the among the gifts you can buy this holiday season to aid care and education of a child, people are spending more Luft presented the operating staff. the needy in third-world countries. than that on a bra," she said. budget to the Council Additions included S4E presented an alternative gift market at a kiosk in Junior Ann DeFilippo said the market provides a nd the public at the two police officers, a the Trabant University Center on Wednesday and students with an opportunity to give to bofu loved ones beginning of the computer network Thursday.