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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY November 19, 1999 • Volume 126 • THE Number 19 Review Non-Profit Org. Online U.S. Postage Paid lVWW. review. udel. edu Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE Main Street Fraternity fight curfew is a hospitalizes one BYKYLEBELZ Although police don't know the possibility Features Editor · identities of the suspects, Farrall said, Two university students were accounts from witnesses suggest BY DREW VOLTURO attacked by approximately 15 some of the assailants had possible City News Editor individuals early Saturday morning ties to Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. A curfew is one of several possibilities a in the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity "Some witnesse s heard the group of city officials will consider to solve house on South Chapel Street, suspects yelling 'Sig Ep! Sig Ep!' as problems on Main Street, city officials said. sending one to the hospital, officials they left," Farran said. City Manager Carl Luft said the curfew is said. A representative of Sigma Alpha only one option that the group, including Newark Police Cpl. Mark Farrall Epsilon refused to comment on the Newark Police Chief Gerald T. Conway, will said after the suspects pushed s ituatio n or reve·al hi s identity, explore. freshman Mark Greenawalt, who is though he admitted hearing of the Conway said the group hasn't met to discuss unaffiliated with any fraternity, to the incident prior to being contacted by solutions yet. house floor, they attacked him while The Review. "We will bring the Downtown Newark he was down. No one has been charged with the Partnership into it." he ~::ti d. "We will look at "Two of the suspects jumped on attack in the ongoing investigation, ideas to make Main Street more family him," FarraH said, "[After which] Farran said. friendly." more suspects kicked him while he Dean of Students Timothy F. Newark Mayor Harold F. Godwin said the was on the ground." Brooks said the university will wait city is concerned about summer events, although Greenawalt was taken to the until the current investigation by the Conway said this summer was not unusually bad Christiana Hospital emergency room Newark Po li ce Department until the last few weeks. after the assault, Farrall said, adding concludes before deciding if the "There were a lot of random assaults in that he had two black eyes and university can investigate the August," he said. "We had a problem with visible swelling of his face. suspects and the fraternities iJ?volved. groups of people approaching and fighting He was released from the hospital There is precedence for this policy random people on the street. the same ·day, hospital official Steven of patience, he said, citing a situation "We are going to try to prevent this from Folk said. two years ago when members of a happening again." • Greenawalt, a member of the fraternity went into an off-campus Cpl. Mark Farrall said the number of assaults, uoiversity men's swimming and house and injured one occupant. On fights and instances of offensive touching diving team, said he suffered that occasion, he said, the university decreased significantly between one-month contusions to the head, resulting didn' t take action until after Newark periods in August and October. Five of the from the attackers' kicks. Police convicted the suspects. incidents in October occurred during Halloween Greenawalt said X-rays reve(!led Police don't know what provoked weekend. "severely bruised ribs," in addition to the suspects to "burst into the front Conway and Godwin both said the primary other injuries. door," at approximately 2:30 a.m., offenders on Main Street are neither residents THE REVIEW/ File Photo "They took a picture of a Farran said. But he speculated that it nor university students, but visitors from City officials say they are looking into several possibilities to make Main bootprint bruise on my back," he could have been spurred by a Wilmington, Middletown and Elkton, Md. Street more family-friendly, including instating a curfew. said, adding that he had bruises disagreement at a soccer game However, some of the victims were university covering most of his body. "My right Friday between the Sigma Phi students after school started in September. eye was completely swollen shut. I Epsilo n and Sigma Alpha Mu Conway said police saturated· Main Street by can barely tum my neck to the right fraternities. putNng overtime officers for a· short-term s ide~"' "Farrall said lae had uo idea whal solution. .Exile on M:un He said he is still sore and has made the assailants stop the violence Another partial solution has been the presence only been able to. go to one class. He in what he described as a "fairly of the traffic division's anti-cruising stop on BY MARIA DAL PAN and early 20s. also has been unable to practice with quick incident." No one appears to the .university swim team as a result Main Street. Managing News Editor Kristin Graybeal, a 19-year-old with light have forced the intruders to The stop is not done every weekend, Conway They don' t live in Newark, but they know brown hair and blue nail polish, got out of her of the injuries. discontinue the attack on Greenawalt said, but it is effective when it is. the city well. white Nissan 200SX to chat with a few The other victim, ·a member of and the other assaulted individual. Conway said a curfew is only a possibility at Even though it's not the place they calt friends. Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, did not FarraH said there is no evidence this point, although some members of city home, the city -or more specifically its "Everyone gets out of their car to make a sustain injuries meriting that the sus pects were under the council have expressed interest in the option. streets and parking lots - has become one of decision," the Elkton, resident said. "Then the hospitalization, Farrall said. influence of alcohol. The presence of two new police officers on their most frequented hangouts. cops come. Then we leave." Main Street- as provided by the city's 2000 Students either marvel at their Her 19-year-old friend, Julie budget - will help bring the total of officers c liques or· wish they would Munzert, looked around the lot. patrolling Mai!l Street on weekends closer to a disappear, while the police spend "The police usually come at I 0," full staff of eight. weekend nights trying to move she said. The officers will be assigned to the special them along. Newark Police Cpl. Mark Farrall operations unit and patrol Main Street on But the out-of-townies - the said a patrol car cruising through weekends. young men and women w ho come ..___ ;...._;...._;....__.;;.....__,the area is usually all it takes to "A lot of incidents we stopped by mere to town just to chill - don't seem likely to clear the area. · presence," Conway said. forget about Newark any time soon. Businesses generally don't want masses of The city currently has three officers assigned At about I 0 Saturday night, the Burger . people tianging out on their property if they' re to Main Street, with more patrolling in vehicles King at the comer of South Chapel Street and not patronizing the store, he said. during normal patrol routes. Delaware Avenue was just starting to fill up, But Andie Cole, a 19-year-old friend of Conway said the group will meet in December though many of the young people were not Graybeal and Munzert, said police activity jlnd January to discuss possible solutions. necessarily at the tables. would not deter her crowd from coming to · "The options need to be researched before Within minutes the parking Jot's asphalt Newark. they can be presented to city council," he said. was alive with cars - some pretty, some "There's nothing else to do," she said. "Council will decide what action to take." pretty average - and people in their teens see LOCALS page A4 :Residents respond to NLA lawsuit THE REVIEW/ Courtesy of Newark Police This man is believed to have robbed the Wilmington Savings BY MARIA DAL PAN especially in terms of occupancy. " I think the NLA is perfectly "No matter what we did, they and Fund Society in the College Square Shopping Center Managinx News EditrJr "In most cases, homes are way wi thin its rights to sue," he said. would threaten to sue," he said. Tuesday. He fled with an·unknown amount of money. Newark residents have been too big and way too expensive for "You can' t tell people what to do So far the City Council has not voicing various opinions on the three people to be able to afford with their property." met to discuss the lawsuit, lawsuit filed by the Newark them," said the student, who lives But not everyone in Newark Wampler said, because everything ,Landlords Association Monday with five people in a house zoned feels that a win for the NLA will the council does must be in strict which accused the city of passing for three. have a positive compliance with public WSFS robbed housing ordinances that Bauscher effect on the information laws. discriminate against student said he has city. He said the City Council would renters. received District 4 probably hold an executive BY STEVE RUBENSTEIN John Bauscher, NLA presiqent, s i m i I a r Councilman session after their next council Citr News Ediwr · said if his organization wins the reactions from Tho mas P.