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May I Have the Next Dance? Itt Sports Itt Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Five-Star All-American Newspaper Does Football's and a National Pacemaker 10 Inch Men? Jacobs look good Yeah right. in Brown? page 84 page 81 FREE FRIDAY DUSC and Faculty Senate reach compromise "Such subgroups which directly concern student life than the students themselves." Boncelet said. .Student congress !r~s~~~~t!~~t:Sky themselves with issues falling under the Porter said the resolution does not set a As the wording stood, he said, no one After three months of debate, the proposed jurisdiction of the vice president of Student specific faculty to student ratio because DUSC except faculty members and students would be Delaware Undergraduate Student Congress Life shall include a substantial number of felt it would never pass if specific numbers permitted to serve on committees. resolution passed, (DUSC) resolution for a stronger student voice students to ensure the diverse representation of had been included. Boncelet said, "However, there are times passed May 10. student interests, with voting status to be "Our primary goal was to ensure that such as fraternity investigations when A compromise concerning more student determined by this committee." student voice was heard on the committees," outsiders such as the chief of police needs to representation on Faculty Senate committees Russell Porter (BE SR), DUSC president, Porter said. "The new resolution does that." be included." : · will give group a that affect students was finally reached said he was satisfied with the adopted According to Charles Boncelet, associate Boncelet said he proposed at the May 3 between DUSC and the senate. proposal. professor of electrical engineering, the original meeting that the wording be changed from "an The resolution, which was submitted and "It ensures that students will be represented resolution was not worded properly. equal number of faculty and student members" passed by an overwhelming majority, reads as on the committees upon which we are the "Personally, I did not support the original as proposed by DUSC to "The committees stronger voice follows: experts," Porter said. "No one is closer to resolution because it was too restrictive," see FACUlTY SENATE page A7 :Mother struggles .to accept violent May I have the next dance? Members of 'murder of daughter fraternity attend By Clare lyons argument they started earlier that 'Senior' Prom Ne\vs Features Editor morning on the phone. NEWPORT- Carol Brewer Karen said she hated him, pushed Tuesday night · remembers the first time she went him and told him to leave. Warren · shopping after her daughter's death. came into the kitchen, picked a knife Robyn Forest She bought a jacket, came home up out of a wooden block and raised Staff Reporter and realized she could not make the it toward Karen. Streamers and balloons hung customary phone call to say, "Guess She laughed at him, thinking it delicately on the walls , fruit what I've got?" punch and shortcake were ready Her daughter, Karen, could not to be served and "Thanks For the reply, "I've got to see it right now," Coping with murdtJr Memories" played softly in the and rush over. background. Karen will never see that jacket. Second in a four-part series Pat Maher (AS SO) checked "It's the little things that really one more time to make sure every get you," Carol says. "All the time." detail was in place. Three years ago, 25-year-old was a joke, until Warren began to After adding last minute Karen was stabbed to death by her back her up into the bedroom. touches, ladies left their rooms husband Warren Nichels, whom There he stabbed her 14 times, and were wheeled down the she'd separated from six weeks the fatal blow coming through her hallways toward the dining room earlier. back and severing her aorta. of Leader Nursi ng and Carol tells the story of her He called the police immediately Rehabilitation Center. daughter's murder with a soft voice: and has not been free since. The brothers of the Kappa Warren pulled up to Karen's home From the time of Karen's death, Alpha fraternity, having been with a co-worker, let himself into Carol has been left to cope with fear, invited to the center, waited to the house with a key Karen had left loneliness and mistrust she never escort the female residents of in the door and continued an see MURDER page A7 Leader for the facility's first-ever "Senior Prom." As the residents trickled in one by one, most confined to wheelchairs and hospital beds, Officials warn UD each was paired up with a fraternity brother. After introductions were made, some couples chatted quietly, of rabid raccoon while others danced or sat together and ate. By Adrienne Mand scene and tranquilized the Copy Desk Chief The brothers, clad in ties, raccoon, Lynn said. danced with their dates to the less A raccoon captured on campus Capt. Charles Townsend of modern popular tunes of the last week was determined to have Newark Police said the animal 1920s and 30s. rabies, and health officials are was taken to the rabies program "Up until today many of the advising anyone who had contact at the Delaware Division of residents wouldn't even come out with it to seek medical attention. Public Health, which determined of their rooms for anything except According to Investigator Jack Monday the raccoon was rabid. meals," said Judy Flanigan, a Lynn of University Police, a Joseph Siebold, director of certified nurses' aid at the home. raccoon was observed acting Student Health Services, said "It brings their day up and :•erratically" on the South Mall at rabies is a viral disease that makes them feel youthful," she THE REVIEW I Walter M. Eberz about 11 a.m. May 6. affects the central nervous said. "It isn't often that they get Dave Poling (PE JR), King of the 'Senior' Prom and his queen, Newark senior citizen Barbara Lynn said the animal was out system and is almost always fatal one on one attention." Urban, bridge the generation gap at a dance sponsored by the Kappa Alpha Order. in the daytime and was if left untreated. Martha Rogers, a resident of approaching humans, two If detected early, however, boys were plenty frisky back Susan Lalor, recreation thing." the center known as Grandma, sat then." director for the facility and a Maher, public relations behaviors which are uncommon Siebold said the condition is in her wheelchair and smiled at fer the nocturnal creature. completely preventable. An anti­ After pointing out all the university graduate, said : representative for Kappa the couples dancing. men she thought were "It's a good idea to have Alpha, said he feels the idea University Police chased the serum is administered around the "We had live bands when I was raccoon up the South Mall onto site of the bite or wound, and a handsome, she said she good looking young men was a success. young," Rogers said. "I'd dance hoped they would return come in. This very well South College Avenue, where it series of five shots are given in to anything they'd play. But the climbed a tree next to the the patient's arm at different soon. could become an annual see KAPPA AlPHA page A7 Academic Services Center. Newark Police then joined the see RACCOON page AS ~----INDEX----~ No light at end of drug News Analysis .................. A2 Marine's valor remembered Campus Briefs .................. A2 Classifieds ......................... 86 Comics .............................. 87 and alcohol tunnel for '66 university graduate killed in Police Report .................... A2 Review and Opinion ......... .A8 flight over Vietnam in 1968 Sports ................................ 84 high school students lunatic Ringe ............ ........ .A3 . memorialized in ceremony Some names have been changed to wheelbarrow and was yanked two protect the identities of minors. By Karen Klopp Petry Rice. ---Also it~siJe: --- blocks up the street at 7:30 p.m. after SEnior Staff Repotter Rice quoted a "good friend By Clare lyons throwing up on a friend 's lawn for NPWS Fearures Editor The honor guard carrying of Bird's," Norman Neide, as Points for charity .. ............. A3 two-and-a-half hours. He'd swigged a the colors marched in quiet saying: "It might seem as Flood in Towers ................ .A3 Pete pulled himself out of bed at whole bottle of Mad Dog 20120 that unison. Their precision steps though not many people put Rockets and students ......... A3 8:30a.m. felt a huge welt on the side afternoon. accentuated the solemnity of very much stock in patriotism of his head, decided his mom would Pete's friends tossed him omo the the memorial ceremony nowadays, but let there be no be suspicious if he got up so early on sidewalk as neighbors drove by, so honoring a fallen' comrade, doubt that it is because of a Saturday and rolled over to sleep 1st Lt. Leonard Adrian Bird, men like Lenny that our off the rest of his hangover. U.S. Marine Corps, who was country continues to be a The 14-year-old Newark High killed in Vietnam in 1968. great nation and remains free. School freshman remembers, with the Obstacles to education The memorial was held Lenny was more than a help of his friend Joe, his ride horne First in a series of stories Tuesday in Kirkbride Hall by person. He was an the previous evening. the 1991S Arnold Air Society inspiration." 1st Ueut. Leonard Adrian Bird "Climb in," he remembers Joe (AAS) Pledge Class. AAS is A U.S. flag was presented telling him. Joe had nestled himself the barrow appeared empty from the a service organization of Air in Bird's memory to Lt Col.
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