Concert Raises $7,000 for Haiti Out, Which Would Have Led to More Argue Cooke Was "Guilty but Mentally of One Or Two People Working Hard," Quake
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.•. A behind-the-scenes look at Women's basketball loses Newark Deli and Bagel Food Stamps in Delaware in CAA Tournament See page 19 Seepage 6 Seepage 28 Check out the Web site for rnre,.ew"'':.'~ I Tuesday, March 16,2010 ·com breaking news and more. Volume 137, Issue 20 Bonistall St. Patty's case retrial weekend set for 2011 critne drops BY LIZ HERNANDEZ BY ELISA LALA StaffR eporter Managing News Editor The rainy weather did not Three years ago, James Cooke stop students from celebrating St. was found guilty of the rape and mur Patrick's Day early on Saturday, der of then-sophomore Lindsey Born but university Police Chief Patrick stall in 2005 Ogden said there was a surprisingly and was later low number of arrests made that sentenced to day. death. "There was an increase in al But in coholic arrests during the daytime, February but the only thing that was unusual 2011, Cooke was that it was during the day," will be given a Ogden said. "Because it was St. second chance Patrick's Day, people tend to do to prove his more day-drinking, whereas on the innocence in weekends drinking does not start a retrial. until the evening." James Cooke L a s t In previous years there have spring, Cooke been more arrests on St. Patrick's appealed his convictions to the Dela Students dance at Thursday's concert, which was a RSO-run fundraiser for Haitian quake relief. Day weekend, but the weather ware Supreme Court, claiming his played a big part in the decrease Sixth Amendment rights were ig this year, Ogden said. nored. Junior Alexa March agreed. The court ruled that the trial court "If the weather had been nic violated Cooke's rights by permitting er, more people would have gone the Office of the Public Defender to Concert raises $7,000 for Haiti out, which would have led to more argue Cooke was "guilty but mentally of one or two people working hard," quake. .,chances to get arrested," March ill" over his objection and despite his BY KRISTEN EASTMAN said. "This weekend was a good Staff Reporter concert coordinator Rita Chang The concert raised a total of plea of "not guilty." said. "The last act was a conglom $7,000 from ticket, raffle ticket T business day [for bars] because of The U.S. Supreme Court declined all the drunks, but you can't get out As the UniteD Students for eration of all the a cappella groups shirt and Haiti memorabilia sales, to overrule the appeal, and last week, to show that the University of Del Chang said. Approximately 600 of hand." a Delaware Superior Court judge set Haiti benefit concert came to a Sophomore Marisa Hall said close Thursday night, students aware is united to help Haiti." people attended the event. Cooke's new trial for Feb. 22,2011. UniteD Students for Haiti, a "Students were able to take the when she went to Grotto Pizza last Kathleen Bonistall, Lindsey's swayed side to side and sang along year, the restaurant was packed, but to "We Are the World" performed group of registered student orga Haiti crisis into their own hands mother, said the family will, for the nizations, banded together to put and make a contribution," Chang this year seemed to stay home. second time, relocate to Newark from by several of the university's a cap "I feel like people didn't know pella groups. on the benefit concert. The group's s~id. "Even though the benefits their home in New York and take mission is to raise money to rebuild aren't tangible to them, they know whether to go out before or after St. leaves of absence from their jobs. "We wanted to show that this fundraising campaign, UniteD Stu the Villa Hospital in Haiti, which "Clearly, we don't have a choice," was destroyed by the Jan. 12 earth- Kathleen said. "We are Lindsey's fam dents for Haiti, isn't just the result See CONCERT page 12 See CRIME page 11 ily. I can't imagine not being there to represent her." \ She said last fall that the first trial was traumatically scarring and she Blue Hen Poll to be distributed today does not know how the family will cope with another trial. "We are just getting to a place 2,500 randomly selected students will recieve survey where we have learned to manage our grief, and this new trial will desu-oy BY AARON DENTEL-POST ~raduati<?n, political interest and voice, equal that," Kathleen said. StaffReporter Ity, media and President Harker's approval Joseph Gllbay, Cooke's lawyer _Beginning <;>n March 16 and extending to rating," he said. for the appeal, sruc;l he is not surprised Apnl 13, the third annual Blue Hen Poll will Wilson said while the poll takes up a by the reversal. ~- . be conducted at the university to find out how good chunk of class time, students also learn "In fact, I started planning the ap- students feel about certain issues on campus. about the methods and importance of polling The poll is led by an independent-study class so they will be prepared to analyze the data taught by political science professor David from the Blue Hen Poll. See TRIAL page 11 Wilson. · "It's important to have a voice, and one '-----'----L-...L..--1'---..t...::.L.:i "We're going to measure satisfaction in way is through polling," he said. 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