Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •••• 96th Year, Issue Ten ©2005 April 1 , 2005 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT Work Headlines 58 native {a,gaages help make Christina wi II cause a stir 0 ............................By JIM STREIT j resume ~yROBINBROO~• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Italy,~~::;~~~~r~~ Mexico, Scotland, .VIetnam, NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER NEWARK POST STAFF .WRITER Grenada in the West IndieS, OME of the funniest EADING the class rolls in Nigeria and the United States. Heavy equipment will Scopy I have ever seen Christina Schools is like Of the 1,500 students at CHS, printed in newspapers reading a list of names from 49 percent are Black, five per- return to complete has appeared in publications countrie s and cultures all around cent are Asian, eight percent are Newark's reservoir with a dateline like the one at the world. Tom, Joe and Sally have Hispanic and less than 39 percent given way to Gu.stavo, Dhara and are White. the top of this page - April 1. By KAYTIE DOWLING My first two newspa­ Cue. What these foreign Other schools sounding names bring to also show a similar ......................................... per jobs were in western NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Baltimore County, Md., our schools is diversity of diversity. Wilson which is home to the cultures, ways of think- Elementary, located University of Maryland ing, and tolerance for in the Pike Creek RACTORS and bulldozers will return to the site of Newark's Baltimore .----==---, others. area north of Newark, T future reservoir for the first time County, often No longer can a has a large Chinese this week since construction came to a dubbed UMBC student be classified community as well halt in December 2003. to differeni­ as White, Black, or as many Hispanics. While the contractors, George and ate itself from Caucasian. Now they are Keene Elementary, on Lynch, have been doing preparat?ry the massive American Indian, Black, Rt. 40 near Glasgow, work for a month, heavy constructiOn main campus in Asian/Pacific Islander, has an equal number of will start once again. That means work College Park. Hispanic or White. Four African-Americans and on a 1.2 million square feet liner will UMBC's stu­ students in the district do White students, with not even fall into these a growing Hispanic soon begin, in an eff<?rt. to protect what dent paper, The Streit will become a 317 mllbon gallon water Retriever, really general categories. population. Christiana High School Besides English, supply. got things stirred . "You'll start to hear the bulldozers up in the late 1970s when Its is a prime example of the there are 57 other banner headline screamed diverse student body. At native languages of this week " said Director of Water and "Kuhn bans demonstrations." a recent Celebration of the 19,680 Christina Waste Water Joe Dombrowski. For the next few weeks, construe- Albin 0. Kuhn was the Cultural Diversity assem- students, includ- bly, students from 13 dif~ ing Spanish, Arabic, UMBC chancellor at the See RESERVOIR , 25 ...,_ time, a period when anti-war ferent countries dressed m Chinese, Korean, demonstrations were the native costumes to parade Vietnamese, Turkish, I norm. before their classmates Urdu, Gujarati, Hindi, Another headline in the and families. As they Pashto and Creole. paper announced "Parking assembled on the stage, ·1n addition to the Two end tim* banned from Loop Road." their colorful attire looked United States, students like an assembly at the claim 73 other nations The story told how state United Nations. highway department offi­ on city council They come from India, cials had determined that it By KAYTIE DOWLING was unsafe for hundreds of ......................................... students to be getting in and NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER out of cars on the four-lane roadway and, thus, was pro­ hibiting parking in the break­ . HE Monday, March 28 Newark down lane. TCity Council meeting brought the UMBC was a commuter end of a combined 14 years of campus with only one dormi­ service for two council members. tory at the time. A mile-long For both Jerry Clifton and John Loop Road circled the cam­ Farrell the meeting marked the conclu­ pus complex and offered the sion of their terms. This April 12, when voters head to their polling places, they See , 23 will fmd that neither veteran represen­ tative's name on the ballot. Farrell cited personal reasons for not seeking reelec­ tion, while Clifton chose not to run for a combination of reasons, both personal and professional. While Farrell was not present for the • See TERMS , 25 ...,_ 7 99462 00002 3 . o baseball fi hts off rain, page 15. • IN OUR SCHOOLS: MTV visits Newark 1g c oo , pag · · PAGE 2 • NEwARK PosT • APRIL 1, 2005 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK PosT ·:· POLICE BLOTTER • Police Blotter is compiled each week from the files of the paper's offices '{'he fact thattb.<!$(~ conveniently in Newark Police Department, New arrested by the were being used for Castle County Police and the Madeline Crossing, uc:t<~Y.' i:ll,c: State Police than entertainment Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the uo:sse:sstrU! illegal gambling making cash payout newspaper staff Office hours are 8:30 illegal, state.police said~ to 5 p.m. weekdays. Jeffrey.M. McKay, 33, owner On March 15 and 16, 2) 737-0724 of Newark's Pale Dog Tavern and executed search warrants Wilihington 's Crerands Ale House, facsimile: (302) 737-9019 businesses and seized 10 nic No wallet, and Amrishbha M. Patel, owner of poker machines and apprp:XJ.1n.at¢1y e-m~il: [email protected] Wilmington's the Country Store, $3,000 in cash. Four machhl.es To subscribe: Call737·0724 or each were arrested on counts .of were seized from the Pale Dog 1-800-220·3311. no loot possessing a gambling device and Tavern, four machines were providing a premises for gambling. removed from the Crerands Ale 20-year-old University Police said that during House and two machines of Delaware student was February, vice squad detectives taken from the Countrl S ninjured after being entered the three establishments McKay was charge(;! w robbed at gunpoint in the 100 and observed elec~onic poker three counts of possessio block Paper Mill Road at 9 p.m. machines. bling device and three on Saturday, March 26. The detectives began playing providing a premises fo Police said the victim was the poker machines. Police said bling. McKay was walking near a construction site that when the detectives had built Magistrate Court 10 adjacent to Olan Thomas Park up enough credits to receive a pay­ on his about 9 p.m. when a young male otit,cthey would be issued a receipt Patel, ·"''., "''"""-"' wearing a black hooded sweat­ by the machine. The receipts were charged w' shirt and black ski mask con­ then presented to employees of sessing a . ling fronted the pedestrian. the establishments in exchange for three counts of oro•vid:ir The attacker displayed a black cash. ises for gaJrnblin;g. handgun and demanded money. ere also times that Police said the victim told his oney into the attacker that be did not have a receive any, wallet. The gunmen patted the victim down to verify the claim, then ordered the victim to turn away as the gunman fled on East Apartments, police said. black male approximately 6 '4" Carhartt style clothing, a hooded Cleveland Avenue. Detectives located a discard­ in height. He was wearing dark sweatshirt and a bandana cover­ Any person with information ed dye pack in the parking lot clothing with a bandana conceal­ ing his face. about this crime is asked to con­ of Melrose Place Apartments. ing his face. The second assail­ tact Newark police at 366-7120 or Several dye stained bills were ant is described as a black male Crimestoppers at 800-TIP-3333. found nearby. approximately 6'00" in height Arrest at CSX crossing Police said the first assailant and weighing approximately 200 Newark police were called to Assault on Main is described as a light skinned pounds. He was wearing tan the CSX grade crossing at 60 N. College Ave. by railroad police at A 22-year-old black man 1:21 a.m. on Friday, March 25. told Newark police on Saturday, CSX officers told Newark March 26, at 1:52 a.m. that racial police that an intoxicated man slurs were uttered at him in front Weekly crime report was hanging onto a pole when of Grotto Pizza, 45 E. Main St., STATISTICS FOR MARCH. 13-19, 2005 COMPILED BY NEWARK POLICE DEPARTMENT they arrived on the scene and that before be was struck in the face man narrowly escaped stumbling by an unidentified white male. INVESTIGATIONS CRIMINAL CHARGES 2004 2005 THIS 2004 2005 THIS onto the tracks in front of a pass- · Police said the victim fell ing train. backward and struck his head PART I OFFENSES TO DATE TO DATE WEEK TO DATE TO DATE WEEK Murder/manslaughter 0 0 0 0 0 0 Michael Matthew Ryan, 20, on the pavement. The man had a Attempted murder 0 0 0 0 0 0 of Baldwin, Md., was arrested by bloody nose and small cut on the· Kidnap 0 0 0 0 Newark police and charged with back of his head. Aetna ambu­ Rape 6 4 0 0 0 0 underage consumption of alco­ lance personnel came to the scene Unlawful sexual contact 2 0 0 2 0 hol. Ryan and his car keys were but the man refused treatment, Robbery 14 12 0 12 6 0 released to a friend, police said, police said.