Special Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper FRIDAY February 28, 1997 Section Volume 123 • THE • Number 36 1997 America East Non-Profit Org. Men's U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Basetball Pennit No. 26 Tournament 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Warrant for victim rescinded • A retaliatory complaint was filed last week in the Pearson Hall sexual assault case BY ROBERT ARMENGOL AND and finger prints in what has been a "very earlier. But Best returned to Delaware Feb. 21 KELLY BROSNAHA bizarre" situation, she told The Review. Spica identified her assai lants to and filed a complaint with University Nl!lt:'i Editors ·'J feel like if I hadn't been fighting the University Police officers who were Police, accusing Spica of hitting him during Being arre ted wa the last thing system.'' she said of her recent ordeals with patrolling the Zeta Phi Beta-hosted sorority the party, Shipman said . Tamikko . Spica expected to happen to law enforcement party, lead investigator Vincent N. Shipman That day, Best convinced the same judge her when she filed a report with University agencies. ''I would have said. According to Spica's complaint, the who signed arrest warrants for Lee and him Police last month alleging that two men editorial been run over by it." men bit, molested and verbally abu ed her. just days earlier to also sign a warrant for sexually assaulted her at a late-night page AS Spica. the 22-year-old Court documents show Michael Best, Spica's arrest. charging her with offensive campus party. w ife of a university 21 . a nd Joseph B. Lee, 26. of Rowan touching not resulting in injury. But early this week, before state sophomore. filed a College in Glassboro, N.J., were arrested Spica said Shipman informed her on prosecutors threw out a warrant issued Ia t complaint with University Police Jan. 18 and charged with unlawful sex ual contact in Monday that she would have to sun·ender to THE REVIEW I John Chabalko Friday for her arrest. Spica was convinced sayin g she was sexuall y assau lted twice the third degree and released on Feb. 18 - Tamikko N. Spica, 22, shown with her husband he'd have to tum herself in for mug shots during a dance at Pearson Hall a few hours one month after the assault. see COMPLAINTS page A 7 Jon, told police she was sexually assaulted twice So what're you doing Friday night? Parking problems hit Stonegate apts. • Students living in the Maryland complex are required to buy a permit BY JAIME TAORMI A heard about it last year so I was Staff Reporter expecting it.'' Students living in Stonegate The permit also allows a law Apartments in Elkton. Md., just enforcement officer to check if a over the Delaware border. received person is staying a short term in a notice last week that they must get Maryland and benefits a students a non-res ident permit for their because they do not have to register vehicles in order to use Maryland's their car. said Agent R obert roads and highways. Anderson for the specia l "At first I didn't know what it investigation unit of Maryland. was,'' sa id senior Rebecca If a student decides not to get a Rottkamp. a resident of the permit. Lang . aid. they can be ·apartment complex located off of ticketed or cited for a mi demeanor. Elkton Road in Maryland. ·'At first I A police officer will not pull a thought it was a ticket but it was non-resident over if they do not just a warning." pos~ess a permit, Anderson said. The students received the They have no specification of who registration violation notice on Feb. is pa5,ing through on Maryla nd 21. said senior Denise Shetzler. a highway' and who is actually resident of Stone Gate Apartments. staying in Maryland for a . hort The notice stated that non-residents period of time. unless they have a of Maryland were in violation of non-resident permit. he said. Maryland vehicle laws. However. once the warning was Maryland vehicle laws state that issued to the 150 non-residents at if a non-resident stays in Maryland Stonegate. a Maryland officer for more than 30 days. that person checks to see if the vehicle is sti ll must obtain a non-resident's permit located on Maryland ground three of from the Motor Vehicle four more times at night. The officer Association. said James P. Lang, will give the students 40-45 days to public information officer for MVA. acquire a permit. before ticketing The permit for non-residents in the vehicle. Anderson said. Maryland costs $20 and allow~ a But Delaware does not require a student to use Maryland facili ti es. non-resident to buy a permit. said THE REVIEW I John Chabalko such as roads or highways. Law Lorraine Angelini. information At first glance it looks as if this sign, which faces Delaware Ave., has been placed as a prank. "The Worst High enforcement agencies also use the operator for the Delaware Division School Play In The World" is actually a student play being performed at Newark High School. permit for identification purposes of Motor Vehicles. and accountability. Lang said. The law does state. howe er. that " It's the law so I can't do after a person li ves in Delaware for anything about it," Shetzler said. " ] see STUDENTS page A4 New RNC chair City endorses calls for unity at race workshop BY JENNIFER PHREANER notably broad cross-section of the Staff Reporter population, she said. Delaware dinner The city of Newark recently Currently, the university is endorsed the Study Circles Program, an considering adding the progrd!TI to its action-oriented racial diversity seminar battery of diversity projects. joining the seri es sponsored by the YWCA of 90 communities aero s the country that • Jim Nicholson spoke to prominent Delaware. have already participated in the Study "We don't communicate enough Circles Program. state Republicans at Mondays feast with each other in general today." Mayor Ronald Gardner said of his see YWCA page A3 BY ELIZABETH BREALEY said. Delaware's next gubernatori al I John 1.-na.oaum planned partici pation in the program, Nmionni/Statt! Nt!w.'f Etlitor election is in 2000. ''It's a great time to be a Republican," said Jim Nicholson, who "and in this communication age that's ..------ INDEX -----, DOVER - The Grand Old Party "We will set the stage for great was elected National Republican Committee Chairman Jan. 17. pretty ironic." is whole-heartedly dedicated to achievements in 1998," Nicholson amendment. on the sixth ballot. Cynthia Cummings, director of Campus Calendar ................. A2 facing the challenge of becoming said, "all leading up to winning the "A ll 55 Republican senators But Thomas Jefferson had to get Residence Life, will lead a university Police Reports ...... ... .. ........... A2 the stronger political party in 2000 White House in the year 2000." support it, [the balanced budget 38 ballots to win the presidency, task force made up of other university World News ......................... A3 by starting now- three years early. 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