News Mosaic Sports YoUDee places second in Philadelphia car show Bird of Brey makes national competition. zooms through city. ·Hens fly right. A3 Bl B8 An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • on-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid ewark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • Friday Volume 125, Number 26 January 15, 1999 Newark Police Chief Hogan resigns with the Rocky Mount Police Department "I feel honored to have worked side by again. After 11 years, in North Carolina. side with him," Clifton said. "Anytime you work in public service "The hardest part [of accepting the new Hogan smiles modestly at these there is a certain amount of heartache." position] is walking away from the people compliments and si mply states, "I like to He sai-d there have been a tremendous Hoga·n waves you have built a relationship with," Hogan help people- I like to solve problems." amount of changes in Newark during hi s said, "but it is the point of time in my life He has had his share of cases to solve. II years. goodbye to the where this seems like the right thing to He said the Grossbe rg-Peterson case was " It has been mind boggling when I do." ·one of the hardest dilemmas to deal with think about it that it has gone by so Hogan said he has not been looking for because of the amount of national attention quickly," he said. city of Newark. a way out of Newark, but as a native of the city received. City Manager Carl Luft said it is going West Virginia, he laid he was drawn to the Hogan has also seen the drug-use in the to be hard to find another chief as BY APRIL CAPOCHINO position in Rocky Mount. city, whether it was crack, cocaine or dedicated as Hogan. City Ne"'s Edi1or "I've always had an interest in Virginia heroin use. Luft will conduct a nation-wide search He has seen the best and the worst of and the Carolinas," he said. "If I ever were He shook his head sadly and said, "A for a n ew c hief of police, which will Newark. to relocate, these two states have always problem I have seen is young people being probably take about six months. By mid­ Whether it was the close-knit family appealed to me and my wife." seduced by heroin and what how it year, he said , he hopes to have a finalist unity of the city or the Ku Klux Klan City Councilman Jerry Clifton said he destroys their lives.'' ready. marching down Mai-n Street, Newark has had the honor to have worked so But he does not get discouraged. In the mean time, Luft will appoint an . THE REVIEW/ Bob Weil) Police Chief William A . Hogan has been closely with Hogan. "I've always found myself tr> be the interim chief within the police Newark Police Chief William A. Hogan · .committed to the community through it all. He described Ho!!an as " a man of hi s tvoe of oerson who bounces back." Ho!!an deoarrment. wave·s to the crowd at the Veteran's Day· And now, II years later, he is resigning. word with unparalleled character a nd said. "I get a good night sleep, wake up the On Feb. 15 , Hogan will take a position see HOGAN page A3 Parade. Hogan recently announced he is ability." next morning, dust myself off and go at it resigning from office after 11 years. Thomas Capano's fate now left in jury's hands BY JOHN YOCCA event s surrounding Anne Marie Fahey's Connoll y said no one knows exactly Assistam Ediwrial Editur death. what happened that night, but the state WILMINGTON - Jurors in Thomas "That s10 ry is ludicrous." Connolly. has proved th at Capano had taken steps Capano's murder trial began deliberating " It defies common sense.'' Capano took beginning in Febr-uary 1996 to prepare Thursday morning, a day aftet Assistant the stand a few weeks ago and explained himsel f fo r the possibility of killing U.S. Attorney Colm F . Connolly and how he and Fahey were watching Fahey. lead defense attorney Joseph S. Oteri television in his house when Macintyre Connolly illustrated this with five key made their closing arguments in' what burst in waving a gun and threatening to points from the case. He said the most has become the highest profile case in kill herself. important testimony was that of Gerard Delaware history. When she raised the gun to her head, Capano. who said he helped hi s brother After the fi rst day of deliberation he said he reached for her arm and the dump the body in a cooler at sea, a story Thursday, the jury made it clear to Judge gun accidentally discharged, striking that h as been corroborated by the William Swain Lee that they ;mend on Fahey behind the ear. defense and other witness testimonies. reviewing every piece of direct evidence "It is n.ot credible that Anne Marie Second, Connolly said Capano bough_! before even taking to a preliminary vote. Fahey and Tom Capano remained on a the cooler to use as Fahey's coffin, not The last day of the case against love seat when they heard a woman as a gift as Capano maintained. Next; the Capano began with long line of scream in the kitchen," Connolly said. prosec utor recalled witness testimony to spectators filling the lobby outside the "It is not credible she would laugh show how M acint yre was calm jus! courtroom . One avid viewer arrived and not be frightened ," referring to hours after Capano said she threatened to Wednesday at the Daniel L. Herrmann Capano's testimony of . Fahey' s commit suicide and accidentally shot ~ Courthouse at 4:45 a.m. and secured the demeanor while Macintyre was yelling strange woman. first spot. and brandishing a gun. Connolly then described Capano's Close to 200 people were packed into The prosecutor, who spoke in a stern demeanor immediately following the hot, stuffy courtroom when the trial voice, said it did not make sense for Fahey's death. started at 9:15 a.m. Some, including one Capano to go to fahey's house and make Using more testimony. he s howed of Capano's teenaged daughters, had to it look like she had been home if she had how Capano remained cal m and even sit on the laps of others just to see the died from a " horrible, tragic accident." read the sports page while waiting for final day of court. Connoll y said it is not believable that Gerard to come out of his house. This, Capano would cover up the story for 30 Connolly said. was not the action of a THE PROSECUTlON months because "there was nothing to man who just witnessed the accidental THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill cover up, no reason to protect Debbie shooting of a loved one. Bruce Shorter, a university employee, spreads sand on a walkway near The Connolly had first crack at the jury Macintyre . The answer is that the He also used Capano' s own testimony South Mall. The university facilities department had to shift into overdrive and started off his three-hour argument defendant thought he could get away to prove he planned F ahey's death. with the fall of frozen rain and sleet Thursday. See story page A2~ asking why it took two-and-a-half years with murder, get away with a murder he before Capano offered his version of the planned to commit on June 27, 1996." see JURY page A4 Reriovated Memorial Rodent delays ·Hall opening delayed basketball game.-: BY BOB KEARY temporary quarters," he said. BY CHiusTINA MEHRA cause of the outage. Walter said CopyEJitor Not only are most of the faculty happy with their AdministraiiW! Neu-s Editor during the outage there was no Renovations on Memorial Hall are nearly_complete, makeshift offices, 'but some did not want to see Who would have thought a tiny danger to the spectator due to the b':lt lhe university will not open the historic building on Memorial renovated at all. mouse could leave fans attending loss of lighting. time. "To me, the old classroom was a challenge," Sunday' s men' s basketball game T he kind o( po wer usecl in· University officials had said that the home of the journalism professor Dennis Jackson said. "I always twiddling: their thumbs for more commercial areas like the Bob English department would be ready to open on Feb. 8, wondered, ' How can I get these students from this than half ~1 hour? Carpenter Center is called three the beginning of lhe Spring Semester. environment to the New York Times?' I had A mouse managed to short out phase power, Walter said. But that has all changed. The project has taken sentimental attachment to it." the electrical system at the Bob explaining that o ne third of the longer than expected and the university now says In spite of h.is reluctance to see the new Memorial Hall, Carpenter Center and Allen normal lighting stays on during a Memorial Hall will open the week after Spring Break Jackson said he thinks it will be better for the students. Biotechnology Lab, causing a power power outage in addition to the in early April. " It will be more of a professional environment outage which lasted from about emergency lights. Executive Vice President David Hollowell said the without the big old steel girders," he said.