Skidfest Will Be Held Saturday
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- UD police· crack down Mushroom smell D.J. Long working on on bike crimes spreads to Newark 28-game hitting streak See page 3 Seepage 19 Seepage 28 SGA hopes for Alumlta raped, bigger turnout abducted on in today's vote Wilm. bus trip BY JOSH SHANNON BY LAUREN SAVOIE Editor in Chief News Features Editor Students will vote today to de A recent university graduate was termine next year's Student Gov kidnapped and raped outside a bar ernment Association president and Wednesday while on a bus trip with other officers. other university students, Wilmington All undergraduates are eligible police said. to vote and can do so by logging The victim, a 21-year-old woman on to www.udel.edu/vote between from Dover1 had taken a chartered bus 8 a.m. and midnight. .Winners will with friends to the Santa Fe Restaurant be announced by Thursday. on the 2000 block of Pennsylvania Av Contested today are three of enue in Wilmington. At approximately the six officer positions of SGA 11:15 p.m., she stepped outside into - president, secretary of public the restaurant's parking lot to make a relations· and secretary of special phone call, Sgt. Steven Barnes of the projects. The other three-- vice Wilmington police said. resident, treasurer and secretary As she was looking down at her f operations - are also up for cell phone, she was allegedly grabbed lection, but have only one candi by two men and forced into the back ate running. The 20th anniversary of Skidfest will be held Saturday. Its founder will !iddress the crowd. seat of a car. Today's election is the first Barnes said the victim believes ince SGA revised its policies to there were three men in the car, two llow for more elected positions of which repeatedly raped her as the car was driven around for nearly three See SGA page 12 Skidfest to celebrate 20th year hours. Shortly after 2 a.m., the men Saturday's festival to give.proceeds to S~udentsfor Haiti stopped the car around the 1700 block of Old Cooch's Bridge Road SGA elections: and people were soaked, and they tradition maintained by the residents BY KATIE RIMPFEL in Glasgow and allegedly forced the When: StaffReporter moved one of the last bands inside, of Skid Row. woman out onto the ground and drove people were still coming, they were · "Students there can't envision Today, 8 a.m. to midnight away. On the morning of April 22, still paying, and they were still stay life at the university without it," Fran The victim went door-to-door How to vote: 1990, Kevin Francis awoke early to "ing," said Francis, the original coor cis said: "It's almost like if you have looking for help until one resident find snow in his Skid Row backyard. dinator and. developer of Skidfest. "It a singer on stage, and he leaps into called the i>olice for the woman, Barnes www.udel.edu/vote But a few hours later, the same nar was absolutely unbelievable - just the audience and each pair of hands said. See page 12 for a row yard was filled with hundreds of the whole sense of community." passes it to the next pair of hands." Police have arrested 21-year-old partygoers and the sounds of bands in This Saturday marks the 20th Senior Skidfest organizer Katie Kharak Singh of New Castle in con list of candidates what became the first Skidfest. anniversary of Skidfest, and this nection with the crime. He is charged "After we ran out of all the beer, gathering has turned into a biannual See SKIDFEST page 9 with first-degree rape, conspiracy and second-degree kidnapping. ast End Cafe to be replaced by entertailllllent-_based bar Owners of Philadelphia rock club purchase Main St. location fer purchased the bar and restaurant and plan to Claymont, Del., added that the new restaurant will BY ELLIOT GROSSMAN reopen it with a new, yet-to-be-determined name be very different from East End Cafe because he Sports Copy Editor ' at the beginning of July. and Shaffer are resurfacing and refurbishing it, but McKay said they have been looking to expand some things that made East End Cafe special will Owners of Mojo 13, a 5-year-old rock club in to Newark for a while. remain. hiladelphia, hav~e purchased the property where "This definitely was a great opportunity for "We.will be bringing our own unique perspec he recently-close<l East End Cafe on Main Street. us to get into Newark, especially since East End tive of entertainment," McKay said. 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