An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper TUESDAY • • November 26, 1996 THE Volume 123 Number 23 on-Profit Org. .S. Postage Paid ewark. DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center·University ofDelaware·Newark, DE 19716 Grossberg, Peterson waive right to hearing ' ' BY LEO SHM'E ill the he'aring scheduled for Nov. 27 at ov. 16 with murder in the first degree President Judge Henry Ridgely publicily_ is entered, there is ~ In other Admini.rtrati\'e News Eilitor 9:30a.m. of a newborn boy. Court documents Thursday ordered Joseph A. Hurley. s ubstantial likelihood of 1material developments, a A university student and her The purpose of the hearing was to show Grossberg gave binh to the boy in Peterson's lawyer, Charles M. Oberly. prejudice to the partie · rights to a fair boyfriend accused of murdering their prove reasonable cause to indict the a motel on South College A venue Nov. Ill and Charle Slanina. Grossberg's trial ." judge barred both newborn son wa ived their right to a couple, and set a date for the stan of the 12 with Peterson· s help. The couple lawyers, to make no public comment on The attorney are still permitted to preliminary heating Monday. ttial. then placed the child. still alive. in a the case because it could affect future give out information concerning the sides in the In an agreement announced by the Instead, the case will be brought plastic bag and Peterson left him in an coun proceedings. charges filed. the timeline of the coun Cou11 of Common Pleas between the before a grand jury on Dec. 9. If no outside trash bin. The ruling also applies to state proceedings. and information contained murder case from Attorney General's Office and the indictment is made at that time. the And after weeks of media clamor prosecutors and all defense lawyers in public record. but cannot discuss the couple's attorneys. Amy Grossberg, a couple will have a preliminary heruing and confusion over the ca e. courts working on the case. specifics of the investigation or their speaking to the freshman an major. and Btian Peterson. Dec. II. have ordered all parties involved to 1l1e gag order stated. '"the coun finds per onal views and strategie on the a Gettysburg College fresh man. waived The two 18-year-olds were charged remain silent. .. that unless an order limiting pretlial news media see GAG page AS Renovations Grossberg case: the aftermath to close dorms University says Five-year project will shut down one hall each semester image is intact BY KEVIN WHITE convenient as possible. the university BY STEFANI£ SMALL into a trash bin after delivering the Staff Reporter plans to shut down one dorm per Admitd.\tmtit·e New\ Etlitor infant in a room in the ewark Staning in the summer of 1997. the semester. said Richard Gaw. During the past two weeks. the Comfon Inn . university will close down and begin coordinator of Student Housing campus has been swamped with Dean of Student Timothy F. renovations in residence hall~ on the Assignment Services. Brian Peterson Amy Grossberg reponers ru1d other members of the Brooks said he could not remember North and South Central Mall~. said Although housing is guaranteed for media. It has become virtually another time the univer ity had o Linda Carey. manager of Student all students. there is a potential impossible to turn on the new much national press. Housing Assignment Service~. problem for extended housing. Gaw without hearing some mention of Brooks said the univer. ity did The reconstruction will include . aid. the uni versity. receive a lot of local and some cosmetic repairs. the addition of air Since at least one dorm wi ll be Howard Stern mentioned it on national press when a university conditioning. upgrading heating closed a semester there may be more his morning talk show. Action student was a fugitive for a year systems and repair, to bathrooms. said swdents living in extended housing News. The Maury Povich Show. after the murder of his parents in Dave Butler. executive director of than usual. he said. Dateline and Inside Edition all want 1988. "But it was ce11ainly nothing Housing and Conferences Services. Upperclassmen who apply for to talk to students and like this:· Also included in the renO\ ation> housing on the required deadline are administrator to find out exactly Although he has received will be the addition of a laundry guaranteed housing. Butler explained. what happened in the early moming numerous phone calls about the lounge to some dot·ms. Butler said. If a student applies late he may not get hours of ov. 12 and why it Gros berg/Peterson ca e, Brooks Thi~ would indude ·•a iounge that is in on-campus housing. Even if a happened. said none have been from close proximity to laundry rooms with >tudent .applie on time. he or she i University freshman Amy prospective students wondering gla. s walls so swdents have a quiet not necessarily guaranteed to receive Grossberg and her boyfriend Brian about the uni.versity. Most of the environment to study and watch their the type of housing they prefer. Peterson. a Gettysburg freshman. phone calls have been from laundry. This past . emester. The Re view were chru·ged on Nov. 16 with the students a nd their parents to "The overall strategy i~ to keep the reported that 500 freshmen who first-degree murder of their complain about media harassment. general character and maintain the decided to attend the university were newbom son. Some of the students who live in historic feature of the buildings ... crammed into extended housing. The couple allegedly placed the Thompson Hall , Grossberg's The walls. ceilings and lloors will If the situation occurs again "we THE REVIEW I FILE PHOTO baby in a plastic bag and threw it also be remodeled to keep the will continue extended housing ... Gaw Peterson looks to his father just before turing himself in. see IMAGE page A2 traditional appearances in tact. To make the repairs as quick and see DORMS page A4 Virus hits campus Floormates finally come forward BY BILL WERDE ··rve had it out with the ew York Post from reporters. '' If there was a story in a Etnrnriof Ediwr and The Review. The media is picking out neighborhood. reporters wouldn ' t j ust open A freshman education major scene were given the antibiotic Amy Gro>~berg will go to trial for her what they want to pick out. They don't someone's door and :1 k if they wanted to diagno,ed with meningococcu~ Saturday. he said. alleged in volvement in the murder of her want to hear our story ... speak. I shouldn' t have to keep my door pneumonia Saturday i> in good The meningococcus bacteria is newborn baby. He r floormate' are already Tara si ts on the bed , back propped shut. .. condition and should be relea~ed from frequently the cause of meningitis. in prison. Conney says. " It' s tough enough just Christiana Hospital later in the week. which is an inflammation of the Trapped by the media. that is. adjusting to being a freshman. ow we said Joseph Siebold. director of membranes in the brain and spi nal In the days following the realization of a have to wonder where the reporter. are Student Health Servi es. cord. Siebold 5aid. horrific crime. national attention has hiding. Marie Dine. 18. who Jives in Dine was carrytng the become fixated on Thompson Hall. Media Kate agrees. ··r under tand there is Thompson Hall. went to the health meningococcus bacteria. Siebold said. scrutiny has foc u sed on Gro>sberg's pressure to get a story, but people have just center Friday afternoon complaining but it affected her lungs instead of her floormates to gain insight as to who she been rude ... of a bad cough and headache. She was brain. was and what happened on ov. 12. Tara says. ··A soon as we found out then taken by ambu lance to the The bacteria i~ spread through To the press. it's just the next big story. about Amy's baby. like five . econds later. ho~pital and wa~ treated for the virus. saliva. coughing. sneezing and But many of the stude nts under the a reporter from the ews Journal came up Though pneumonia can be drinking from the same c up as microscope feel as though their privacy has to us. It didn't even have time to sink in." dangerous. it is easily treated with one someone with pneumonia. Siebold been breached. "And the day after it happened."" Jenn dose of the ClPRO antibiotic. Siebold said. It only takes a small drop of THE REV IEW I John Chabalko Five of these student s, all women who says. ··Lauren Wilson from Action News said. He said anyone who ha5 been in moisture. Amy Grossberg lived in Thompson HaU. spoke with Amy on a regular basis. gather came up to me as I was leaving and asked contact with Dine should go to the Symptoms of the virus include in Kate and Jenn's Thompson room to against the wall. "Some reporters will sit if I had anything to say. infirmary for treatment. Her parents. fever. headache. extreme weakness. discuss how their lives have changed in the ri ght by th e door. They just yell que. tions ·' I had no idea what he was talking lloormates and the paramedics on the neck stiffness and cough. past two weeks. to you as you walk by:· about.'' "I don ' t think we have any privacy ..