Itt Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Baseball wins The trials and j5' Liberty Bell tribulations of · Classic being an RA page BS page 81 FREE FRIDAY During the first week of Confessions of an alleged killer accused killer By Larry Dignan the audio tape was being played. Special "ssignment Reporter apprehended by police in New Orleans in Charles Cohen's The taped confession was part of the May 1990. WILMINGTON - Charles Mark Cohen prosecution's evidence in the sentencing Along the way, Cohen said he stayed stared blankly at the table where he was phase of Cohen's trial which began last near libraries and became an avid reader - trial, a confession sitting and doodled with a yellow No. 2 week . turning to books for both personal pencil. On the tape, recorded in 1990, Cohen inspiration and more aliases. The former university student calmly sat revealed his LIFE AS a fugitive- drug During his 18-month flight from recorded in 1990 in the chambers in Wilmington's Superior abuse, close calls with police, pan-handling authorities, Cohen said he converted to Court and listened absently to hi s for money and the use of numerous aliases Christianity and wanted to "get a fresh provides a glimpse confession detailing his two years of hiding while he crisscrossed the country. start." after the 1988 murder of his parents. "I survived so many close calls, 1 guess I But he said he was pursued by violent Cohen, 27, who is charged with felt like I really couldn't be touched," he thoughts that tormented him. In his of his life as murdering his parents in their Hockessin said. "I felt special." confession, Cohen said he had urges to kill a home in November 1988, displayed little Cohen said as he eluded officials lesbian for money in New York City. emotion - with the exception of an nationwide, he became more confident in He said once he succumbed to those a fugitive Charles Cohen occasional smile to a female friend - while his ability to deceive people until he was see COHEN p.18e M Dining hall Incumbent Gardner: changes keeps mayor's post : reversed By Mickey McCarter Staff Reporter Newark is starting off a new election year with a few familiar faces. Dining Services reopen With 1,687 total votes in Tuesday's city elections, incumbent Mayor Ronald Pencader for breakfast, L. Gardner garnered 1,464 of them, leaving his opponent, university lunch after protest sophomore Gordon Gary Geise (AS SO), with 223 . By Lisa McCue Newcomer to the city council, Anthony Staff Reporter Felicia, lassoed 475 of the 653 votes in Angry students protested the closing of the third district to defeat previous Pencader Dining Hall for breakfast and councilman Edwin D. Miller Jr. lunch Monday, but saw quick results for Fifth-district incumbent Jane Tripp their efforts when Dining Services officials defeated Wallace Hansen 251 to 102, and re-opened it for all three meals Tuesday. Olan R. Thomas, who ran unopposed, The decision to cut the Pencader hours remains the councilman for the six.th and open the Upper Deck for breakfast and district. lunch was announced Friday. Four-year resident Andy Mox, 30, of Duane Clark, senior food service director, the third district who voted for Gardner said the decision was made in an attempt to said: 'To be honest, Gardner hasn't done accommodate students who wanted to buy anything that I've disliked. I read some their breakfast and lunch meals a Ia carte information provided by [Geise). It di dn't style with points. click with me." This caused Ken Nelson (AS JR) and Geise said: "The majority decided Source: City Secretary's Office David Downs (AS JR), who described against me. But that's what representative themselves as "two pissed off students," to democracy is all about. However, I mayor." stand outside the Pencader dining complex learned a lot about city politics." Gardner said he felt "progress has been during Monday's dinner hours and ask Third District-resident Dave made" in the past three years he has students to sign a petition to bring breakfast Rosenberg, who also voted for Gardner, served as mayor, and said he plans to and lunch back to Pencader. 'said: "He has the experience. He has the continue the progress. Nelson, along with other students, best interests of the city at heart and he's "You can only do this job for an · complained about the small selection of good at geLling things coordinated. We interest in the community," he said. "If items at the Upper Deck for students using really. don't need a young student as see NEWARK page M the meal plan equivalency. Protester Laura Ingram (AG ND) said,."! · figure we pay for the quality and quantity of · the food and now they're taking it away by not providing as much of a choice for us." Pennell investigator Another complaint about the change included waiting in longer check-out lines at the Upper Deck due to cashiers having to itemize everything for students who only use points. still haunted by case Scott Krewatch (BE JR) said: "It really bothers me because it slows everything By Sara H. Weiss apprehend serial killer Steven Pennell, she down and the selection seems to be so much City News Editor says the effect of the four years she spent smaller. For Renee Lano, the nightmares came connected to the case were "filled with "Also, I think the nutritional value of the frequently and always they were the same. turmoil." food has changed. It seems like our only She remembers them vividly. The plot Lana made that revelation when she choices are fast-food type things." was simple, the result horrifying. and a colleague, Detective Sgt. James After observing the breakfast and lunch "Steven Pennell would escape from Hendrick, visited one of the university'j operations on Monday at the Upper Deck • • 1 Pamela Wray De Stefano Gander Hill prison and come to get me," criminal justice classes Tuesday night to , and hearing students' complaints, Clark said En·vtronmental Protest A man dressed in a black hooded robe she says flatly. discuss the Pennell case. Dining Services decided to reinstate the and painted face was one of the protesters who rallied Monday at Du The last time she had the nightmares But Lana and Hendrick did not visit the original hours at Pencader. Pont headquarters in Wilmington to protest CFCs. See story, page AS. was in September and she hasn't really class to offer more of the sordid and Clark said the decision to close Pencader been troubled by them since. horrifying details of the case that have see DINING page A4 While the bad dreams have disappeared been documented in what must be for Lano, one of the officers who helped thousands of news stories. Lano and Hendricks' discussion - which, ironically, fell on the one-month r----INDEX -----, anniversary of the Pennell execution - · Colleges Across the NationAl focused on an aspect of the case that has largely been ignored: how the case Campus Briefs .................. .A2 affected the officers who handled it. Classifieds ......................... 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Awards Banquet Monday night at Phillics manager Dallas Green, who After about two months and after about Clayton Hall. ' also attended the banquet. 200 men had stopped "to talk" with Lano, Both the Delaware men's and "Sometime in 1980 I got a call she noticed a blue van that had pused by women's basketball teams were from a good friend of mine named her four times. She memorized the tas honored for their seasons before Pete Rose and the Phillies had just number. Knight. s speech. gouen a new manager [Green]," It wasn't until later in the investigation "''bere Is only one key that opens said Knight. "Rose called me and Bobby Knight, Indiana University's men's bat1ketball - on a darker and more secluded stretch the door to your own success," see BOBBY kNIGHT page AS coach, with university President David Roselle.