DUSC Gains an Extra Voice in UD Committee
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In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Five-Star All-American Newspaper In Section 2 Kevin Blackhurst and a National Pacemaker Shooting and - He's not just scoring at for basketball Don's Billiards ·. page 85 page B1 j, • !',·· \ ............. J., t '' -~,. FREE TUESDAY DUSC gains an extra voice in UD committee By Rob Wherry c 1 5 t t c dd't · J d d t .t C 'tt St d t L·.t I'm reluctant to support it" AdminisltaliveNewsEdiror racu ty ena e vo e Javors an a I rona un ergra ua e lOr ommt ee on u en tJe, Frank B. Murray, Dean of the After submitting a watered down d I I I d I f d , h d college of education agreed and version of their original proposal, e ays proposa to inc u e equa amount 0 stu ents m ot era ministrative groups sU:ted that the wording would have the Delaware Undergraduate to be changed before he would Student Congress (DUSC) realized consider it again. a small victory Monday when the issues concerning students, and that controversial stance to one more issues shall consist of an equal Senate, tried to save the second The controversy over student Faculty Senate approved one of the Faculty Senate must receive a acceptable. number of faculty and student resolution by excluding the word representation originally erupted their resolutions for a stronger two-thirds majority vote on these The two resolutions put to vote voting members. voting from the proposal, but was when DUSC challenged the idea of student voice. issues instead of the 51 percent were: By a vote of 46 to 2, the first met with fierce debate. whether students actually had a fair On March 3, DUSC submitted usually needed to pass through the • the number of students resolution was passed while the Gordon Bonner, a professor of say in the Senate with only two two separate resolutions to the group. appointed to the Committee on Senate elected to send the second Business and Economics who voting members . Faculty Senate, asking for reforms In the March 24 meeting. DUSC Student Life increase from three to back to DUSC to clear up the disagreed with the motion, said: Some of the Senators were in the voting process when issues Senator Michelle Shapiro (AS SR) four; ambiguity of th e wording. "The [Faculty Senate) is not set up surprised by D USC's change in concerning students are at hand. submitted a diluted version of the • subgroups which directly Mark Lu szcz, DUSC along Democratic lines. To create stance and observed the new These demanded that DUSC be original proposal, changing from a concern themselves with student representative in the Faculty that facade is very unfortunate ... able to review and vote on any see DUSC page AS Under Construction Traffic stop leads to arrest of Newark man on drug charge By Brian Hickey charged with possession of Staff Reporter cocaine with the intent to A routine traffic stop by deliver within a Drug Free University Police turned into a School Zone. drug bust Sunday night when Pechickjian was processed cocaine and marijuana were by Newark Police and is being found in the car of a Newark held on $7,500 secured bail, resident, police said. according to police. A police officer observed a The driver of the car, Sandra red Pontiac Sunbird being Owens, no age available, was driven erratically on Barksdale charged with driving under the Road and pulled the car over influence of alcohol, Flatley into the Rodney Residence Hall said. parking lot. A third passenger was not The officer noticed a small charged with anything by either amount of marijuana and police department. cocaine in the automobile, Several University Police resulting in the arrest of one officers, along with Newark passenger, David Pechickjian, Police, searched Owens' car for 27, of Newark, said Capt. Jim close to an hour as students Aatley of the University Police. coming back from Spring Break Pechickjian, who is not a returned to the Rodney E/F student of the university, was parking lots with their parents. THE REVIEW / Doug Donovan The university is installing a drainage system at Delaware Stadium to alleviate the field's flooding. Vice President David E. Hollowell said the construction will be finished by the first week in May and will cost close to $350,000. Although the field will not be ready for the football team's Blue-Gold game, which will be held on a practice field, it will be ready for commencement. Thieves target local Sen. Biden proposes stalker bill shopping center, again By Michael Regan Saturday's robbery is unrelated If Congress approves, courts will have access to suspects' history City News Ediror to the hold-up of the Bank of By Matthew J. Nalbone stalking after violating a A Newark liquor store was Delaware and the burglary at Sraff Reporrer Stalking is defined as restraining order will face no robbed Saturday, March 27, Superfresh, which occurred the According to a recent proposal the act of repeatedly less then 6 months imprisonment marking the third time in a week previous week at the Fairfield made by Sen. Joseph Biden (D- and an approximated $1,000 fine. that the Fairfield shopping center shopping center. Del.), victims of stalking and following another Biden's proposal is based on was targeted by thieves, police Hogan said a lot of the recent domestic violence need to be person and threatening the idea that judges at all levels said. robberies in Newark have better protected by the judicial them with intent to should have information which Glen A. Stagner, 33, of suspects from out of town. system. could reveal the history of Brookhaven, Pa., was arrested "Criminals aren't restricted by If the Senate approves and injure violence of a stalking suspect the same night after allegedly jurisdiction. like we are," he Biden's "Stalker and Family when deciding on sentencing. robbing Fairfield Liquors and said. Violence Enforcement" (SAFE) access to the records. According to a spokesman for shooting at a Pennsylvania State Hogan said, however, he does proposal becomes an act, the Biden, the senator said that Police officer following a chase not feel the Fairfield shopping federal criminal history records According to current Delaware although he does not believe the which ended in Media, Pa. center, located less than a mile of a stalking suspect will be law, stalking is defined as the act proposal will stop horrible Stagner is being charged with north of Laird Campus on New made available to the family of repeatedly following another crimes, it could help relieve the attempted homicide of police London Road, is especially violence courts for the first time. person and threatening them with fears of potential stalking officers and other charges related attractive to out-o f-state State criminal J·ustice officials the intent to, "place that person victims. in reasonable fear of death or to the robbery and ensuing chase. criminals despite its isolation are presently the only sector of serious physical injury." "No one should have to live in Chief William Hogan of from the rest of the town. Sen. joesph Biden, D-Del. the justice system that have Any person convicted of see STALKERS page AS Newark Police said last see FAIRFIELD page AS judge hands Dawson ~----INDEX----~ News Analysis ................... A2 Campus,Briefs ................... A2 Camping out second death sentence Classifieds ......................... B6 Comics .............................. B7 Students set up tents, not towels, on Spring Break fling Police Report ..................... A2 By Michael Regan Ciry News Ediror Review and Opinion .......... A6 Sports ................................ B4 By Laura Jefferson feel like you're all best friends. Following a unanimous jury Convicted murderer Srudent Affairs fdiror "It makes you put trust in someone else." Weekly World News .......... A3 recommendation in March that he scheduled for execution To most students, Spring Break means sun, surf The group began their adventures last Monday, be put to death, convicted July 14 for the 1986 and fun . when they hiked to the park, where they camped murderer David Francis Dawson ---Also inside:--- Yet. 12 university students spent their time off overnight both Monday and Tuesday. was sentenced Friday, the day homicide of a in the comforts of Carpenter State Park in Newark The students said they were apprehensive about after his 38th birthday, to be Kent County woman Group fights deficit ............ A3 and the Carpenter Sports Building camping, the experience at first, due to their inability to executed. Axe murderer sentenced .... A3 climbing and cooking. cook and their intially bad meals. New Castle County Superior lawyers combat drugs ....... A3 Chcris Lawson (PE SR) said the course, Matt Rosewag (PE JR) said, "I went to bed Court Judge Henry du Pont thinking we were going to starve." state's Superior Court for a new Outdoor Recreation and Skills, taught the Ridgely made the final decision The problem with food was eventually solved, penalty phase ·and one of participants about surviving in the outdoors and on the execution which is he said, by team work and being taught the right Dawson's defense attorneys, Paul how to work as a team. scheduled for July 14. The week-long one credit class fills a way to prepare meals and proper food rationing After Dawson and three others S. Swierzbinski, successfully pleaded for a change of venue to requirement for all Physical Education majors and techniques. escaped from the Delaware is open only to them, said Roger Spacht, associate Another problem arose, however, when Correctional Center near Smyrna New Castle County. due to excessive publicity in Kent director of recreation and intramural programs.