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News Mosaic Sports Newark residents The latest in the Hens sweep Boston first debate rental cap Grossberg-Peterson saga time since 1992, 78-60 A3 B3 See page BlO An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • • THE on-Profit Org. .~Review Online U.S. Postage Paid www. review. udel. edu ewark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Friday Volume 125, Number 29 February 5, 1999 University moves 11 Smyth Hall residents moved was made to better the atmosphere in said the one "strike'" again t them shouldn' t Freshmen the hall. be enough to get the~ kicked out of their "The thing that we were mostl y concerned rooms. about was trying to identify those indi viduals Alan Peoples, who has been moved to relocated after whose behavior had been disruptive to the Rodney after spending five months on the communit y," s he said. " We tried to second floor of Smyth. called the university's determine those who were no t positive move "ridiculous.'" damages reach community members." "I don' t think the RA' did their jobs and Each of the II residents had at least one they should have had the cops in there the " firm judicial sanc ti o n against them .'" first week of school,"' he said. '·I had two more than $7,000 Cummings said. days notice ·to move out and I have a final Since September, the amount of damage to coming up. BY RYAN CORMIER Smyth has been staggering. ·'It was just outrageous.'" Editor irr Chief The destruction has ranged from water Cathy Peoples, Alan· mother, aid she Eleven freshmen were kicked o ut of fountains ripped from w"a ll s to b roken agrees with her son and said actions should Smyth Hall last week after damages to the lighting fixtures. Also, toilets have been have been taken earli er. vandalism-plagued residence hall reached clogged with beer cans and e lectrical wires She said she understands something had to $7,000 for the current school year. have been cut. be done to stop the vandalism. but added that While university officials are saying the The damage has es pec ia ll y irked the university went about it the wrong way. II freshmen contributed to a poor sense of uni versity officials because Smy th was ·The universit y should have met wi th the community, they will not say that these are recently renovated. kids and made them re sponsible for getti ng the stude nts who caused the extensive Dean of Students Timothy F. Brooks said the building straightened up and made them a damage to Smyth. a mass shifting of students for violati ons has part of it,'" she said . '"Th ey were li ving in "We have not determined that they did or only happened twice during hi s 20 years at their little bubble thinking they were doing did not have an y thing to do with this the university. line.'" vandalism," said Cynthia Cummings, director '~I was surprised and very ang ry about it ."" Cumming conced ed that it is he said. "We were doing very well last year "conceivab le'" that the timing of the tran fe rs THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill of Residence Life. "But we have the right Eleven freshmen residents of Smyth Hall were moved to several other within housing to reassign students if we feel in reducing vandalism in dorms and spent a could have been a lt ered as to not disrupt campus locations after damages totaled $7,000 for the current school year. it is in the best interest of the community." lot of money renovating Smy th -it's She said the decision as to who would be inexcusable." see UD page A 7 But the students who are being relocated City Council puts freeze on rental permits BY APRIL CAPOCHINO 60 days. City News Editor Rea l estate bus inessman Bill After three-quarters of the Murray said, "I think it was a farce audience spoke out against the to have everyone come up and t ~lk rental cap proposal Monday night, sincerely tonight when you already Newark City Council members had it planned." unanimous ly passed a separate David Muellenberg, one of the emergency ordinance forcing city 49 people who bought a permit in officials to freeze the number of the past two weeks, said he was rental permits distributed to disgusted with the council 's Newark residents. "railroading" of the issue. Junie Mayle , director of " Calling this an emergency is building, said 49 permits have getting what you wan t done been issued since January. He also without public comment," he said . said this number was more than However, city council members half the amount given in the said the emergency ordinance was average. year. not pre-planned . Members of the audience said City Manage r Carl Luft said , they felt it was a waste of "their "There was no behind-the-scenes THE REVIEW/ Bob Wei ll time to come to the public forum purpose to d o something against Marguerite Ashley, co-chair of the Old Newark after the council passed a pre the public. Civic Association, speaks in favor of the proposed typed moratorium, which will last see CITY page A3 rental cap at Tuesday's City Council meeting. University LGBSU holds protest The manager of the ·Group angered Exchange, who asked that hi s name not be used, observed th e THE REVIEW/ John Chabalko · by nightclubs circle o f c hant ing protes ters Sophomore John Bain leans proudly on his 1,476-pound rubber band from the doorway. ball. Bain was recently ridiculed on "The Howard Stern Show" for "This is not necessary,'" he having a "stupid" goal to be in the "Guinness Book of World Records." misuse of said. " They co uld have come and talked to me." The club and the LGBSU had acronym an unofficial contract, in which BY MELISSA SCOTT the club agreed to sponsor SINCLAIR under-21 dances in excha nge Howard Stem busts Student Afl"airs Editor for the use of the LGBSU 's WILMINGTON - Chants name for pro m o tion s, said and shouts _echoed through the Aaron O v erma n, LGBSU streets of Wilmington Friday president. on UD student's ball night as the uni versity 's " They nee ded bus iness Lesbian Gay Bisexual Student because they were new, and we Union s taged a protest at a needed a place to go,'" O verman BY BETSY LOWTHER He expects to add about 500 more nightclub, accusing it of unfair said. The arrange me nt, whi c h Comribming Ediwr pounds by April , the deadline for the business practices. began in the fall o f 1997, turned N o thing . it see m s. ca n escap e 2000 edition of the "G ui nness Book The LGBSU a lso used the out to benefit the Exchange. '" A radi o s h ock jock H oward Stern 's of W orld Records.'· event to promote another local l o t of their Friday ni g ht poison tong ue- not even Delaware. " Did you ever kill s mall anima ls ni ghtclub, leading some to business was because of us:· he THE REVIEW/ Melissa S~on Sincl:ur Stern and sidekick Robin Qui vers as a yo ung c hild?'" Ste rn asked dismiss the protest as nothing said. Members of the university's LGBSU protests in front of the took m o re th an a few cracks at durin g the 15-minute interview. more than a manifestation of The relationship bega n to Exchange, one of Wilmington's two gay night clubs. The sophomore John Bain, the university " What kind of goal is that? club politics. sour when the club refused to Exchange was using the chapter's acronymn for publicity. and the s tate on th e Jan . 20 "The 'Guinness Book of Records' More than 25 protesters financially compensa te the broadcast of Stern' s daily radio is so s illy. Like, there · s some guy marched with signs in front of LGBSU for the use of its name, the LGBSU. i not unique to the uni versit) ·, show. [i n there] who a te 50 p o und s of the Exchange at 914 Orange St., Overman said. The LGBSU name continued o rganizati o n . ·· It doesn"t sav Bain , 21, of Wilmin g to n. was cheese and made the wo rld's longest while a few curious passersby The LGBSU then contacted to appear in conjunction wi th U t ~i vcrsity o f Delaware behind interviewed b y phon e on the s how doodie.'" and club patrons looked on. the Exc h ange to ask th at its the Exchan!!e. L ast week 's it."" he -aid. after construc ting a 1.4 76-pou nd Stern s pent most of the interview " We've had enough with n a me no lo l)ger b e used to edition of th; Philadelphia Gay S cott l\la;o n . as · istant rubbe r band ball - unofficiall y the lec turing B a in abo ut finding false promises ... how about advertise the club' s events, but News listed the '"LGBSU 18 directo r o f tudcnt activities. said. ·"Tc chnicallv. hc "s right world's largest. see STERN page A4 you?'" the flyers passed out by the c lub never returned th ei r and up dance club'" a Friday· s demonstrators read, urging phone calls, he said.