IH Sporls IH SectioH 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper A preview of Achtung Baby! the women's U2 rocks lacrosse se~on ·~ Philadelphia page BS AP HivE page B1 FREE N FRIDAY Student Ct•nler B-1, University of Delaware, Nt'w.trk, Dt'l.tware 19716 ,\1an h I ), 1 1J'J2 s! Hens crush Drexel, 92-68, to take NAC crown, advance to NCM tournament Hens roll Fans go wild to,victory during game By Dan B. Le-vine By Benjamin R. Ringe Managing Edilor AssisfMif NPN< Edilor Mission accomplished! The clock ticked off the final 10 The Delaware men's basketball team seconds of the North Atlantic Conference fulfilled a season-long dream Wednesday · Championship. night by defeating Drexel University 92-68 A countdown was chanted in unison at in the North Atlantic Conference local night spots. Blue Hen followers felt Championship. chills run down their spines as they stared The victory, before 2,864 frenzied fans at intently at big-screen TVs. the Field House, advances the Hens to their "Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five - first-ever NCAA College Basketball time· our, aagghh!" It couldn't have ended Tournament. soon enough. "This is the culmination of an awful lot of Fans everywhere were on their feet as hard work by a great bunch of guys," said the Hens walloped the Drexel Dragons Hens' coach Steve Steinwedel. 92-68. · "They made up their minds very early, At the Scrounge, a wave rolled through probably about an hour after last year's the crowd in the smoking section. defeat to Rider in the ECC Semifinals, that Others stayed focused on the big this was going to be their year." screen, watching the Hens dunk their way NAC Tournament MVP Alex Coles' 22 to the NAC crown. points and six rebounds helped the Hens Police estimated there were 400-500 extend the nation's second-longest winning viewers in the Scrounge and the Center streak to 20 games, as Delaware (27-3) Court section- a number one-sixth the overwhelmed the Dragons (I 6-14) before a size of the Field l;louse's capacity crowd. nationally televised audience. "The crowd was great," said Mike "There was no pressure on us," said Lockett (AS JR), the originator of the Coles. "The only pressure that was going to Scrounge wave. "It was the next best be put on us was by ourselves, so we just thing to being at the game." came out and played our game." President David P. Roselle, one of And so they did. 2,864 cheering fans at the Field House, With a 24-22 lead, the Hens went on a was pleased with the support the team 14-6 run in the last six minutes and 17 _ was given at the game. seconds of the first half to enter halftime "The reaction of everyone was really with a commanding 38-28 lead. great," he said. "Everyone was supportive Senior guard Mark Murray punctuated of the players." the spurt with a steal and slam to give Students on Laird Campus celebrated Delaware a 38-26 lead with two minutes at the Amber Lantern, where people remaining. started coming in to get seats at 5 p.m . ."We needed to make a defensive stop and Approximately 40 people chose to · we didn't get it," said Drexel coach Bill see FANS page A6 Herrion. "Everything they threw at us, we didn't have answers for." In Sports The second half was more of the same, as the Hens' precise offensive execution and • Complete game coverage,page BS dominating defense helped set off a party like Delaware basketball fans have never After a 92-68 romp over Drexel University, some members of the Delaware men's basketball • A pictorial look at the game,page seen before. team bask in the championship-glory of the North Atlantic: Conference title. B6-B7 l. The Smith Hall sit-in: one year later Economist: University Minorities still question state of race relations on campus one year after Smith Hall protest is 'very, very wealthy' By Paul Kane doors to Smith Hall swung open they called the administration's administrators signed an agreement . Managing Edilor and about 120 black students "superficial and half-hearted to meet with the students. American Association of One Monday morning last March flooded the steps leading to the treatment" of race-related issues. The event brought race relations ~~~ University Professors (AAUl'). the usually tame Smith Hall was second floor classrooms. The group brought a list of 10 to the forefront of the university as At high noon Monday, the The faculty are using Weber's turned into a verbal battleground of Organized under the name demands and wouldn' t leave the many studoe.nts abandoned classes university's faculty unholstered fmdings to bolster their bid for racial and cultural diversity. Concerned Black Students (CBS), building until President David P. that day to watch the battle unfold. its hired gun to strengthen its higher salaries and benefits. At 8 ~.m. March 11, 1991 the the students .were protesting what Roselle and several other key But one year after the sit-in, position in today's conaact talks The university has been questions 8\'bout race relations and with the administration. getting wealthier every year for the univer·sity's commitment to "The university is very, very the last ,10 years, Weber said. racial and cultural diversity are still wealthy," said Richard E. Weber, During those years, the being asked . a fmancial consultant hired by university has increased its net Although many of the demands the university chapter of the see WEBER page A6 have been met, student leaders say the administration continues to be "dehurnani2~ing" towards students . • .whites "All around, I see nothing but hypocrisy," says Joshua C. Greene, ,----INDEX---, .bl~cks president .of the Black Student Storm winds Union (BSU). AI. Colleges ....................... .Al Oother Campus Briefs .................. .A2 Students at the• sit-in grilled Classifieds ......................... BS do the twist Roselle and Doug Tuttle, director of Comics .............................. B9 ' Public Safthy, about the treatment On the Ughter Side ........... .A3 of black sthdents by Public Safety Police Report ..... ............... .Al with Newark TJ see SIT-IN page A7 Review and Opinion ......... .A6 Sports ................................ B7 Early morning twister THE REVIEW I Tom Czerwinski ---A&o irrsitk:--- rips the lid off Chrysler Delaware caucus results ... .A3 By Vincent A. De Muro Jr. Judge denies Pennell execution appeal Nicotine skin patch ........... .AS Sr.ffR.por!Pr New English professor ...... .A3 Pan of the Chrysler Plant's roof By Sara Weiss Pennell was issued two life and Gov. MJchael N. Castle. tore off and an electrical fire was Convicted serial · Clly Nftlts Edilor sencences in November 1989 for two The handwritten injunction was started on the Conraii/Amtrack Convicted serial killer Steven B. of the US 13/40 serial killings. He sent to Char~cellor William Allen late railroad tracks Wednesday morning Pennell will die tomorrow as was convicted of two more murders Tuesday aftu:rnoon. when a twister' blew trough killer will still face planned. in October 1991 and handed capilal Oberly said, "We believe Newark • . A~Delaware Chancery Court punishment. [IMPAC) has IDide a strange reading The city was hit with heavy execution Saturday just! e denied a prison inmate William Killen, of the public of the statu e." he said. "The death winds around 6 a.m. thllleft a palh grou 's Injunction Wednesday defender's office said the Inmate penalty is not like any other of destnaction along Soulll College auerrtP'ina 10 stay Pennell's SlllW'day Political Action Committee sentenee." 1 Avenue, causin& a three·bour delay despite inmates' execution. (IMPAC), headed by Joseph Walls, Oberly said the group has no to 2S en-route trains. A 22-page report cited the contends that Pennell serve his two "legal stan~ing" or representation. The hip-velocity wiDdl tore otr attorney general's office was in life terms before being executed. Since Permell hu expressed a desire a 3,()00-square-foot sec:tloo of abe efforts to reverse violation of Tille 11 of the Delaware Killen, an IMPAC advisory board to die quickly, he said, the person Chrysler Pans Dlstrlbulion Plant Constitution, which states that member, said Walls had previously who Is sentenced is lhe only one who roof. criminal sentences must be aerved in sent notices of his complaint to could change: !he court naHna- The twister tbtD ci'OIIId OYer sentence the order in which they were handed. Attorney General Charles Oberly ID , see IMPAC P9 A7 -'IWIIIB...-M In brie March 13, 1992 • THE RMEW. A2 Candidate for commissioner Robb plans to have different premiums for various kinds of lifestyles, such as discoUnts for wants to rein in insurance costs non-smokers and higher rates for the Unhealthy lifestyles, inaeasing numbers of overweight. He also plans to offer programs to people without health insurance and Medicare educate for better lifestyles. underpayments are the primary causes of high "It's not just making [health care) less insurance raiCS, said a stale insurance expensive, it's that we have a tremeudously commissioner candidale. unhealthy society." He cited problems such as Democrat James A. Robb, 44, of Newark, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, announced his candidacy in December. He said -cigarette smoking and obesity as CCIUributing his major concern is to make health insurance factors. more affordable. Robb also said there is also a high rare of 15 "We bave seen a total collaple of the health to 20 percent of uninsured automobile driven insurance and health care industry," said Robb, on lh4: highway.