.. An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY February 6, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 29 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Chills, spills and thrills at the ice arena Two students • charged in October rape Arrests stem from the Fall rugby party BY RANDI L. HECHT will decide whether to suspend Contributing Editor Deptula from the university. Two university rugby team The sexual assault allegedly members were arrested in occurred in the early hours of Oct. connectio n with two rapes and a 23, 1997, at a member of the rugby sex u al assault which allegedly team's house during a toga party occurred Fall Semester during a with the Kappa Alpha T heta party given by the rugby team, sorority. Newark Police said. Nancy Geist Giacomini. assistant Bryan 1. Deptula, a senior. was dean of studems. said in previous arrested Jan. 28 on two counts of interviews with The Review that third-degree unlawful sexual members of the rugby club were intercourse and one count of wearing togas with no clot hing second-degree conspiracy, police underneath. Giacomini had also said. said some players bet sorority Thomas A. Christiansen Jr., a members that the women could not university graduate, was arrested sexually arouse them. THE REVIEW I John Chabalko Feb. 4 on one count of third-degree The rugby team was suspended Russian Olympic contenders Angelika Krylova and Oleg Ovisiannokov show off for the crowd at this weekend's University unlawful sexual intercourse and o ne of Delaware 1998 World/Olympic Send-Off Skating Exhibition. for a year and a half in December count of second-degree conspiracy. by the university judicial system, Deptula was released on $7,000 regarding incidents at the party unsecured bail and Christiansen such as sexual harassment and Olympians delight Newark crowd was released on $2,000 cash bai I. serving alcohol to minors. The club Deptula is schedu led for a was also required to pay a $300 preliminary hearing Feb. II in the fine and its membe.rs were required BY MARK E. JOLLY bulging with cars and people before the show. techniques, but before Grushina and Goncharov · Court of Common Pleas in to attend classes on sexual Eucuti~·e Ediror Late arrivals carved spaces out of lawns and took to the ice for the first performance from Wilmington. harassment. The Fred Rust Ice Arena was quiet enough that loading docks for their vehicles. They then joined Olympians, the expectant crowd received its first He had no comment on the However, several members of one could hear the somehow violently beauti ful the line of people stretching from the arena lobby taste of the show's caliber. charges. Christiansen could not be the team debated the everity of the sound of skates cutting through ice, despite the out the double doors, across the patio and into the Shaun Rogers, the 1998 Eastems Intermediate reached for comment. punishment because they said it people crammed onto bleachers, lining the rink parking lot, hoping there were still tickets left for Men's Bronze medalist, a slight but surprisingly Dean of Students Timothy F . was not an official club event even and standing behind the railing at the top of the the University of Delaware 1998 World/Olympic athletic 12-year-old, elicited the first common Brooks said the status of a student though the university deemed it so. seats. Send-Off Skating Exhibition. emotion from the crowd when he almost fell after who is anested for an allegeJ Many in the crowd had waited hours in eager By 5 p.m. Sunday, when the event was to a jump. But he recovered, standing on one skate They ~aid tht!y thought it was felony which tak es place off anticipation to be able to see such university­ begin, the s how was sold out and scores were as the gasping from the crowd quickly changed to unfair for t-he whole club to be campus is pending on the outcome grown athleticism in person; some had even turned a way. Those inside crammed onto cheering. punished when only 14 of the of the case in the Delaware court showed up three hours before the show to make bleachers or lined the side of the rink, eager to see For the rest of the exhibitio n the c rowd team ' s 42 members were in system. sure they got tickets. the Nagano-bound Olympians perform. belonged to the figure skaters , crying out attendance. And they were lucky they did. After a rendition of the National Anthem by " If convicted," Brooks said, "he Kappa Alpha Theta sorori ty The parking lo t surrounding the arena was one young skater and a demonstration of skating see OLYMPIC page AS will have to go thro u gh the members would not comment o n un iversity judicial syste m" which the investigation or the c harges. Americana owner arrested Capano's younger brothers BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO Suburban Plaza Shopping Center in does not have a valid license cannot City News Editor N ewark, was serving and selling "lead the public or travelers to reveal new information The owner of Cafe Americana alcohol without a valid liquor believe, by means of signs. was arrested last week and will be license. inscriptions, advertisements , or BY LAURA OVERTURF AND arraigned Wednesday on charges she Acker has been charged with circulars that he is authorized to sell nightgown and a hairbrush. charge of tampering with a witness in violated the Del aware Alcoho l RYAN CORMIER Three days after the Dumpster was a previous grand jury hearing looking violating the following sections o f alcoholic liquor." News Editors Contro l Act b y selling alcoho l the Delaware Alcohol Control Act: Mike Manley , an ABC emptied, Louis said, Thomas told him into Thomas' involvement in Fahey's WILMINGTON Thomas without a liquor license. •Secti o n 719, Sub- Section 3, enforcement agent, said there was a he a lso placed a handgun in the disappearance. He admitted to trying Capano' s younger brothers, Gerard Dumpster, but said he "hoped they Gina Acker turned herself in to whi ch states no one can store spirits, liquor license that belonged to to "convince her of things she didn't and Louis Jr., testified this week in his would find the gun because it hadn't the De laware Alcohol Control wines or beer in an establi shment another restaurant hanging in the bar think were lrue." bail hearing, revealing new been shot." Louis had also been under Commission officials at the Newark without permission from ABC; area of Cafe Americana. information about the days The testimonies of the Capano investigation for wire and mail fraud, Police Department on Jan. 28. Her • Section 901 , Sub-Sectio n 5 , ABC officials also found a surrounding the disappearance of brothers were a result of plea obstruction of justice and perjury prior case was transferred to the Court of which specifies anyone who does not Budweiser neon sign and decals on gubernatorial secretary Anne Marie agreements they signed, agreeing that to the signing of his plea agreement. Common Pleas. have a proper license may not claim the front door of the restaurant which Fahey. they broke the law while trying to However. he has never been charged If convicted, Acker could face up or represent they do have a license or made it appear the restaurant was S upe rior Court Judge William cover up the actions of Thomas. with any of these offenses. to three months in jail and a exhibit a document which appears to allowed to se!l alcohol. Swain Lee is expected to make hi s Gerard guaranteed the government Gerard said he helped dispose of monetary fine. be a valid license; An employee who was also decision concerning Capano's bail hi s full coop eration and truthful the body because Thomas told him to. It was discovered in January that •Section 903, Sub-Section II, arrested for serving alcohol to ABC today or Monday when the marathon testimony throughout the trials. In "He told me to be a man,'' Gerard Cafe Americana, located in the which stipulates that a person who offi cials will be arraigned Monday. hearing ends. exchange he will be charged only with said. "He said. ' Don't leave me The state's star witness, Gerard, kidnapping - rather than murder or hanging- I need you .. , testified Tuesday upon his return to conspiracy to ki ll Fahey - receiving Louis said he agreed to lie to the Thomas' house after he helped dispose only three years probation instead of a grand jury about what he knew about University may create new of a body at sea with him, Thomas possible I 0 years in prison. the body disposal because Thomas asked him to help di s pose o f his Louis agreed to plead guilty to the loveseat because he had gotten a stain see CAPANOS page A4 .. on it. debit card for off-campus use Gera rd said the stain - on the upper portio n of the seat where a BY MELISSA BRAU Kreppel, assistant vice president for can d o it until after we find a shoulder would be p ositioned if Administrativt! News Editor the office of administrative vendor." someone was sitting in it - was the The uni versity has sent out services. Kreppel said the university size of a basketball a nd added he requests for proposals to six local " We've asked the banks to needs a banking partner because of believed it was blood.