An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY May 15, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 53 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 BUDGET FOR EACH PROGRAM Colorado emphasizes research Residence Halls $25,000 BY CHRISTOPHER Y ASIEJKO dollars. S.A.F.E. Team $20,000 Managmg News Ediwr And then, one night later, with authorities in The recent statements concerning the full riot gear waiting for the bars to close, it Natural High $13,000 university's progress in dealing with binge happened again. drinking prompted The Review to examine three Locally, the back-to-back clashes came to be HS Partners other colleges that received grants to reduce known as the Riots on University Hill. Two high-risk drinking from the Robert Wood weeks ago, o n the one-year anniversary of the Wm. Village Johnson Foundation in Fall 1996. This, the incidents. 40 officers patrolled the area. third part in a series of four, examines the Another 180 officers from surrounding counties T ..:.. ..~ ·"''· University of Colorado at Boulder. were on standby. The couches burned a little more than a year School and community officials don't want ago. Right there. in the middle of 13th Street on to battle through the fallout of another riot. And BUDGET FOR EACH ACTIVITY University Hill. just barely on the outskirts of if UC's plans for the use of its Robert Wood the University of Colorado's main campus. Johnson Foundation grant work, the program time. In a state known as home to the Coors Media $30,000 Eight bars and many houses line that road, may reach its goal -to change the entire Brewing Corp. - "Tap the Rockies," blares a where last May 3. officers of the Denver Police mindset of an alcohol-guided campus. popular ad campaign -coordinators of the Advertising $20,000 Department and the National Guard lowered "Learning the Boulder Way," UC' s version program have focused much of their attention Plexiglas visors over their faces and proceeded of the privately funded research project. on reducing the advertisement of beer and other Coalition Work to arrest 40 of the estimated I ,500 overnowing received $860,769 from the foundation in alcoholic beverages. Speakers party-goers. September 1996. The grant was the largest "We want to remove [alcohol] as an issue Twenty-six police officers were injured in issued among the four universities that semester that might become an edge or a seducement to the melee, which featured a steady torrent of awarded the five-year program known attend an event,'' said Bob Maust, CU's director Source: "Learning the Boulder Wa}" THE REVIEW I A1idrew T. Guschl flying beer bottles. Local businesses suffered universally as "A Matter of Degree." damages that totaled hundreds of thou ands of Administrators at UC haven't wasted any see AT COLORADO page AS Lack of black police raises testing questions BY APRIL CAPOCHINO Police in April. Of those multiple-choice tests which do not Stall Reporter applicants. 33 were white males. relate to how policemen actually For the second year in a row, o ne male was of Native American perform on the job. no black applicants have passed descent and four recruits were He said he does not 1 hink the the Delaware State Police white females. standardized tests are fair and ' entrance exam. Since 1990, there have on ly believes there are a host of Tom McGonigle, deputy legal been 18 black male police officers reasons why blacks are not counsel to Gov. Thomas R . accepted into the state p olice passing the state police exam. Carper. said 58 of 535 applicants force. One-hundred ninety-seven " A large reason for the lower to the fo rce were black. white males . 41 white women , scores of African Americans on Thirty-three of the 58 scored three black females and II the tes ts is the poor education too low to be considered for a job minorities. including Hi spanics. they have received dating all the on the force , while the o ther 25 Asians and American Indians , way back to pre-school,'' he said. voluntarily withdrew their have also been hired. McGonigle Instead of giving standardized application or failed background said these numbers are less than tests, Schaeffer said he thinks checks. they would have liked. testing over computers with a According to a chart from Rober-t Sch-aeff.:r, public video tape. using figures and Delaware's Department of Public education director for FairTest, a blocks and using assess ment Safety breaking down the number non-profit organization for fair centers wil l look more broadly at of recruits hired according to race and open testing which is based in what the people taki ng the test and gender, 38 app li cants we re Cambridge, Mass., said most state hired by the Delaware State police exams are stand ardized see POLICE page A4 HorrOr turns to headlines Puglisi case picked up as tabloid sensation story BY MELISSA HANKINS the tragedy. Swjf Rt!porur " How can the Puglisi family get their lives back Debra Puglisi probably never dreamed her face together when a ll this is out there'~" Carrier asked. would one day be plastered all over The National ''Articles like this one cause everyone to relive the Enquirer. pain . It 's incredibly upsetting and the police Yet both her picture a nd her recent tragedy are shouldn't be talking to tabloid reporters." featured in the infamous tabloid's latest lurid edition, The Enquirer article quotes extensively from New sittin g among the likes of such neighboring articles as Castle County Police Public Information Officer Joe " Baywatc h Bloodbath" and '·Cher: I Talk to Sonny Lavelle. Through A Psychic." Lavelle said he feels Smith took great liberties Millions can now relive the terror of the Puglisi 's with the quotes he included in his story. " What can recent ordea l while standing in line at their local you really expect from the Enquirer tho ugh ?'' Lavelle grocery s tore, soaking up as much fear as Enquirer asked. reporter Philip Smith could muster. " I would like to refuse to speak to tabloid people, Smith began his article by describing Puglisi as a "victim of a merciless sicko who sneaked into her sec PUGLISI page AH) home , ; hot her husband dead , then kidnapped and ·s he's.an awesome woman -her \.\iiJ t.o ti'-'f' saved sexually assaulted her ltr.r life-r· Til&t'5 ho\1. an admiring police Laura Davies, a three-time winner of McDonald's LPGA Championship held annually at the repca1cdly. tha·t pn.1~s l>ehra Pugll.o;1- Ul t: v-:r! ~.m o( a mercilt'1i~ sidw whu DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, drives a shot during this year's competition. The "Fo r four horrifying s;neakL>d inl:.t her twn'"', -~ho( her days," Smith wrote. "crack­ r.u:s b11nd dt>~d. then kidnappt"d tournament wiJIIast until Sunday. For a related story, see page A2. her and $e$'.Jal:s aMa~ll - .'I'J'!~........ ~~P..P-'!;;r.~~~"'"""~\111..-: na;:ed Donald Flagg td her repeatedly. a:'d~~~~~nlC~~~ .;i~ impr iso ned 46-ycar-o ld l::tl JII>,Ur'~d IG-yt.!oir-Gl::t 'De bta hcg ~t~ hr·r !l kiC' a~ an­ Debra, hog-tied her like an u~al 41.r.tl tVe:\ reiid her ,,e-..·!Spapo..-.r :lceQi.ints o! hn anima l and even read her hu~har.ci's Rrisly murdt'!'. say tvps. Newark atop DelDOT's list newspaper accounts of her ·n '! ~-o~d be!W>! •,o;b.3t husband's grisly murder." ~:tc: ~~ ~~\:,~\)~: t.:NQ(IlRER. -=ri~ .suu&ll~­ Smith contin ued to asSOlulted hl!r, lt!tt l~e ~u.• BY JESSICA KRUMERMAN by DeiDOT and the city to increase Parkway. Elkton and Apple roads. and lhf'.n S«!;XU.ally a&UIU}lflld illustrate every aspect of the h~ agam: Staff Reporter traffic enforcement at the and Elkton R oad and Amste l -st;.e mi.O!i> hil\'t' cri me with what Fath er Newark is waiting to pursue its intersection between South College Avenue, are being considered as "in«<! thAt ..·c:cccc .. : .::: Michael Carrier, the priest six-year plan to implement a $30 Avenue and Christina Parkway. possible sites for cameras. but no ~~~§bukn~- tM full~r ~ ~~~G~""1ij who celebrated Anthony million management system to speed Integrated Transportation one is certain. Puglisi 's funeral , call ed a traffic by informing motorists of Management System is a digital Resolving debates over whether s ickening and insen si ti ve delays and installing an electronic signal system that provides to use digital or traditional film and spm . red li ght enforcement system, said information about road conditions finding an acceptable bid wiil Car ri er said he was Gene D onaldson, the Delaware and alternate routes for commuters. finalize the project. personally disgusted a nd Department of Transportation's This information wi ll be available There will be no policeme n saddened with the Enqui rer's integrated transportation through World Wide Web si tes and needed to monitor the areas. It will explicit account. administrator. through the travel advisory service all be run electronically and the fi lm toAO " Some people live to read 1n Both programs will be sponsored which will also be accessible wi II on ly need to be changed by shot blood. ;:~a;~~.:u.'C! :i-fooH. these artic les," he said.