NewarkGreater Newark’s Hometown Newspaper Post since 1910 JULY 13, 2018 WWW.NEWARKPOSTONLINE.COM FREE UD Park N Shop apartments approved In striking reversal, council PETA protests members laud project they UD professor initially tabled By JOSH SHANNON Group takes issue with [email protected] research using rats Newark City Council on Monday ap- Pg. 2 proved a controversial plan to build apartments and additional retail space COMMUNITY in the Park N Shop just months after ap- pearing poised to reject it. The project sailed through unanimous- ly and, in a striking reversal, council members who had sharply criticized the Celebrating America project in March heaped praise upon the See PARK-N-SHOP Page 9 Brightening the room Minster’s closing after 123 years 99-year-old’s floral hobby benefits nursing home By JOSH SHANNON Pg. 5 [email protected] Minster’s Jewelers, one of Newark’s old- SPORTS est businesses, will close its doors for the last time on Saturday after 123 years. The closure, announced Tuesday, comes seven months after owner Marilyn Minster died at age 87. The Minster family debated what to do with the store and decided last week to close it, Marilyn’s son, Will Minster, said. “There’s really not a next generation to take over and continue it,” Will said. Increased competition from larger chains NFL player and online retailers makes it difficult for a small independent jewelry shop to survive, comes home Will said, adding he believes there is still a NEWARK POST PHOTOS BY JOSH SHANNON market for a jewelry repair shop in Newark. Newark’s annual Independence Day celebration, officially called Liberty Day, drew thousands of people to the Del. native Duron Harmon University of Delaware’s athletic complex on July 4. Top: Fiona Ferguson (left), 2, runs through the crowd. Above See CLOSING leads football camp left: The Mason Dixon Band performs. Above right: Fireworks explode over the UD Field House. 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Free. enue on Monday to protest Second Saturday Nature Crafts: Saturday, 12:30 a professor’s research tech- p.m., at Glasgow Park Bank Barn, 2275 Pulaski High- niques. way. Attendees can create decorative items using natu- On the first day of the uni- ral materials like seed pods, grasses, twigs and more. versity’s second summer ses- Free. sion, protestors held signs Summer concert: Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at White that read “UD: Stop abusing NEWARK POST PHOTO BY BROOKE SCHULTZ Clay Creek State Park, 880 New London Road. Karen baby rats,” “Electroshocking A group of protesters, led by PETA, organize outside of McKinly Laboratory, a University of Rodriguez & Latin Jazz Ensemble will perform as part baby rats won’t help abused Delaware building, to protest the research techniques of a professor on Monday. of the park’s weekly summer concert series. Free, but kids” and “Animal cruelty – park fees apply. at home: get arrested, in the benefit to human health,” ac- Office of Laboratory Animal Roth did not respond to a For more events, visit newarkpostonline.com/calendar. lab: get funded” as a stand cording to Davidoich. PETA Welfare.” request for comment. To submit listings, go online or email news@newark- against research conducted has filed a complaint with the “Dr. Tania Roth is an ac- In an editorial published postonline.com. Information runs in the print edition as by Tania Roth, an associate National Institute of Child complished and respected Monday in the News Jour- space is available. professor of psychological Health and Human Develop- researcher in the field of nal, Roth wrote that her work and brain sciences. ment to ask it to cut funding behavioral epigenetics. Her “seeks to understand how “For nearly 20 years, Tania for her research. important research helps in- negative experiences early Roth has been tormenting “Rats feel pain and fear form appropriate treatments in life have lifelong impacts and killing mother rats and and loneliness just like the for children who have been on the brain and behavior…. their infants in pointless, dogs and cats we keep as abused or traumatized,” Tip- Without the animals I work cruel and inhumane experi- companions,” Davidoich pett continued. “The Univer- with, I would not be able to ments,” said Katerina Da- said. “Unfortunately, rats are sity of Delaware supports uncover the basis of how vidoich, a spokesperson for exempted from the Animal her vital research program our experiences affect our PETA. “We’re calling on the Welfare Act; they don’t even as part of our fundamental brains. We already are using University of Delaware to put have minimal protections in mission to make a positive information we have fathered a stop to these experiments.” laboratories, so it’s really im- impact on society through from our work with rodents Roth’s research focuses portant that we get pressure education and scholarship.” to inform intervention ef- on the long-term influence from the school to stop these Charlotte Chaze, a gradu- forts with neglected and at- of maltreatment in early-life cruel experiments.” ate researcher in biochemical risk children in the US and caregiving experiences. She In a prepared statement, engineering at the university, abroad.” uses developing and adult UD spokeswoman Andrea was among the protesters According to UD, the Of- male and female rats to study Boyle Tippett said the institu- gathered outside McKinly fice of Laboratory Animal the brain regions that are tion is committed to “provid- Laboratory. Welfare in the National Insti- significant in behavioral and ing the highest standard of “We already know abuse tutes of Health investigated mental health. humane treatment to animals causes mental health issues,” the claims against Roth and NEWARK POST FILE PHOTO PETA alleges that Roth has used in research, and we fol- she said. “We need to fund found that her research com- The annual summer concert series at White Clay Creek used $2 million of public funds low all guidelines from the mental health research, not plies with the regulations and State Park continues Wednesday. in experiments that “have no National Institutes of Health this.” guidelines. Join Us! 3rd Anniversary BLUE HEN .weeklong celebration. CARWASH Car Wash JULY 16 -21 Wash Your Prices Beach Car MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10 AM -NOON Here! 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For the 2017-18 year, students the price of tuition. This year will also introduce a received more than $121 million Officials announced that the differential charge for students in grants and scholarships, which university will charge in-state stu- enrolled in the Alfred Lerner increased 60 percent over the last dents $520 more – for a yearly to- College of Business & Econom- five years. tal of $13,680 for tuition and fees ics, the College of Engineering In addition to the changes in – and out-of-state students $1,160 and the School of Nursing. For cost, the university has lifted its more, for a total of $34,310. these students, an additional credit-hour cap as a way to help Including room and board fees, charge will be included in the tu- students graduate in four years. the average cost for an undergrad- ition and fees fall and spring se- Students will now be able to take uate student to live on campus is mester billing statements, which 18 or more credit hours without $26,544 for residents and $47,174 are sent out in mid-July and mid- being charged. for nonresidents – an increase December. In previous years, students could from last year of just under 1 per- According to the university, take between 12 and 17 credits per cent for both. full-time students enrolled in the semester for the same cost, and NEWARK POST PHOTO BY JOSH SHANNON The increase in tuition and fees programs will be charged an ad- would have to pay extra for any ad- Graduates attend the University of Delaware’s commencement in May.